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Brislawn, Ferdinand Leo, Jr. – 1971
To determine whether children possess representations and concepts of space before they acquire verbal descriptions of these, children's formation of symbolic representations of space and their acquisition of verbal referents for them were observed. It was found for subjects in the study that conceptual representations of space relations were…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedBaechle, Cathy L.; Ming-Gon, John Lian – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1990
This study of 52 learning-disabled children, aged 8-13, found that direct feedback and practice improved metaphor interpretation. The approach was highly successful in teaching students to generalize concrete concepts to abstract ones. Further descriptive analyses indicated that grade and reading levels of subjects correlated with metaphor…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Drills (Practice), Elementary Education, Feedback
