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Burke-Merkle, Ann; Hooper, Frank H. – 1973
The efficacy of small group instructional programs in classificatory, seriation, and combined class/series skills was evaluated for a sample of 60 urban, middle-class, 4- to 5-year-old children in a transfer of training design. Significant curriculum-specific transfer effects were found for the seriation instructional condition, whereas little…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Developmental Tasks, Educational Research
Padilla, Michael J.; Smith, Edward L. – 1975
Reported is a study of the teaching and transfer of seriation strategies using non-visual variables with first-grade children. Sixty first-grade children were administered Piaget's stick seriation task and classified as stage I (non-seriators) and stage III (seriators). From this group 24 were chosen and assigned to strategy treatment groups.…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Educational Research, Elementary School Science, Instruction