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Conservation as a Predictor of Reading Achievement
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Brekke, Beverly W.; Williams, John D. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1975
Concludes that despite a significant relationship between conservation and intelligence, neither is a significant predictor of reading achievement. (RB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Predictive Measurement, Primary Education, Reading Achievement
Reversibility Preceding Conservation and Reading Readiness
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Psychology, 1975
Identifies the concept of reversibility (an awareness of the prior situation after a transformation of shape) as an area of difficulty in the Piagetian concept of transitional conservation. (RB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Primary Education, Reading Achievement, Reading Readiness
Conservation of Weight with the Emotionally Disturbed
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Educational Research, 1975
The article describes research which attempted to discover whether emotionally disturbed children functioned at Piagetian levels of abstract thought similar to normal children. (CD)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Conservation and Reading Achievement of Second Grade Bilingual American Indian Children
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Psychology, 1974
The results of this study question the usefulness of the Draw-A-Man Test as a measure of intelligence for the bilingual child. (TO)
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Students, Conservation (Concept), Disadvantaged Youth
Relationships among Different Stages of Piagetian Tasks and Spatial Relations in Adolescents.
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Williams, John D.; Brekke, Beverly W. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1979
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Conservation of Weight With the Mentally Retarded
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Brekke, Beverly; Williams, John D. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
Compared institutionalized and public school retardates to normal elementary and high school students at several mental age levels on three conservation of weight tasks. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Age, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis, Conservation (Concept)
Stages of Piagetian Tasks and Spatial Relations in University Students.
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Williams, John D.; And Others
University students were administered three Piagetian tasks and a spatial relations test, the Revised Minnesota Paper Form Board. Students' American College Test (ACT) mathematics scores were also recorded. A measure of conservation of weight, administered individually, was the first Piagetian task. Two paper and pencil tests of progressively…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Conservation (Concept), Higher Education