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Peer reviewedNicholls, John G.; Thorkildsen, Theresa A. – Child Development, 1988
First-, third-, and fifth-grade students saw matters involving intellectual conventions and personal preference as more variable across time and space than matters involving logic and physical laws. Furthermore, intellectual conventions were seen as legitimately changeable by social consensus and school authorities, but not on the basis of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluative Thinking
Peer reviewedMiura, Irene T.; And Others – Child Development, 1988
Compares the cognitive representation of number of 24 American, 25 Chinese, 24 Japanese, and 40 Korean first-graders, and 20 Korean kindergartners. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean children preferred to use a construction of tens and ones to show numbers, whereas English-speaking children preferred to use a collection of units. (RJC)
Descriptors: Chinese, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
