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Direct linkDeak, Gedeon O.; Ray, Shanna D.; Pick, Anne D. – Cognitive Development, 2004
To test preschoolers' ability to flexibly switch between abstract rules differing in difficulty, ninety-three 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds were instructed to switch from an (easier) shape-sorting to a (harder) function-sorting rule, or vice versa. Children learned one rule, sorted four test sets, then learned the other rule, and sorted four more sets.…
Descriptors: Difficulty Level, Preschool Children, Cognitive Tests, Adaptive Testing
