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Thirty Years on--A Large Anti-Flynn Effect? (II): 13- and 14-Year-Olds. Piagetian Tests of Formal Operations Norms 1976-2006/7
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Shayer, Michael; Ginsburg, Denise – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
Background: Shayer, Ginsburg, and Coe (2007) showed that children leaving primary school in Y6 entered secondary school with much lower levels of understanding of the physical conservations than in 1976. It seemed desirable to investigate cognitive development in the first three years of secondary education. Aims: By using two Piagetian tests of…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Cognitive Development, Formal Operations
Cognitive Development of Teacher Candidates: An Analysis.
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Reyes, Donald J. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1987
An Inventory of Piaget's Developmental Tasks was used to assess attainment of five Piagetian tasks of elementary and secondary-level teacher candidates and of general population college students. Results were compared and are discussed. Recommendations to promote cognitive maturity are presented. (Author/MT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Education Majors, Formal Operations
The Evolution of Proportional Structures in Children with and without Learning Differences.
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Grobecker, Betsey – Learning Disability Quarterly, 1999
Twenty-nine children with learning disabilities (LD) in grades 2 and 4 through 7 were compared with children without LD for their development of proportional structures of thought. Significantly fewer children with LD had constructed second-order logical structures necessary to act on problems using multiplicative and preproportional reasoning.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis