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Components of Understanding in Proportional Reasoning: A Fuzzy Set Representation of Developmental Progressions.
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Moore, Colleen F.; And Others – Child Development, 1991
Examined the development of proportional reasoning by means of a temperature mixture task. Results show the importance of distinguishing between intuitive knowledge and formal computational knowledge of proportional concepts. Provides a new perspective on the relation of intuitive and computational knowledge during development. (GLR)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, College Students, Computation
The Development of Perspective Taking: Understanding Differences in Information and Weighting.
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Dixon, James A.; Moore, Colleen F. – Child Development, 1990
Examined preschoolers' and second and fifth graders' development of two types of perspective taking: (1) perspective taking based on differences in the information available to two people; and (2) perspective taking based on differences in weighting the same information. (RH)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Comprehension, Elementary School Students