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Are Children's Rural-Assessment Classifications Invariant across Instances of Problem Types?

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Ferretti, Ralph P.; Butterfield, Earl C. – Child Development, 1986

A total of 61 children from first through sixth grades participated in four balance-scale and four inclined-plane problem types in a study testing for invariance of subject classifications as rule-users across problems whose products differed but whose type did not. Results indicated that many children's classifications differed across…

Descriptors: Children, Classification, Knowledge Level, Problem Solving

The Influence of Dimensional Manipulations on Class-Inclusion Performance

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Tatarsky, Julian H. – Child Development, 1974

Presents an investigation of the hypothesis that an increase in the salience of the total class dimension should improve class-inclusion performance. Subjects were 220 children in kindergarten through third grades. (SDH)

Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Dimensional Preference, Elementary School Students, Kindergarten Children