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Peer reviewedMetz, Kathleen E. – Review of Educational Research, 1997
The complex relationship between cognitive developmental research and children's science curricula is explored, focusing on the tendency to attribute shortcomings in performance to the child's age, the confounding of weak knowledge with developmentally based deficiency, and emphasis of stage-based constraints on children's thinking. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Development
