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Edmonds, Ed M. – 1973
A schema is best understood as a statistically defined concept. Schematic concept formation consists of abstracting the common elements or properties of a defined class in a schema. Thereafter, both discrimination and retention are facilitated, since only deviations from the schema need be processed for any particular class exemplar. In the…
Descriptors: Children, Concept Formation, Developmental Tasks, Discrimination Learning
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Siegler, Robert S.; Richards, D. Dean – Developmental Psychology, 1979
The rule assessment approach was used to examine five-, eight-, eleven-, and twenty-year-olds' concepts of time, speed, and distance. (CM)
Descriptors: College Students, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Decision Making
Wakefield, Alice P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1997
Children who come to school without numerical game-playing experience have trouble with math relationships in direct-instruction situations. This article explores the varied roles of active thinking, social interaction, previous knowledge, and child-initiated choice in children's development of math concepts. Self-esteem cannot be built by doing…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Concept Formation, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education
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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1991
Fifty children, ranging in age from 4 to 10, were individually administered a series of tasks involving different combinations of 2 items selected from a discrete set of items. Analyses of their performances revealed a series of six, increasingly sophisticated, solution strategies ranging from random number selection of items to a systematic…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
McKeough, Anne M. – 1987
An analysis of children's narrative composition and art revealed concurrent development at both a general structural level and at a fine-grained detail level. A three-part study investigated whether this general cognitive pattern would be maintained across a different range of tasks: literary composition, scientific reasoning, and working memory.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Klausmeier, Herbert J.; And Others – 1976
Piaget's model of children's conceptual learning and development was compared with Klausmeier's Conceptual Learning and Development (CLD) model in a longitudinal study. The CLD model suggests four successive levels of concept learning: (1) concrete--recognizing an object which has been encountered previously; (2) identity--recognizing a known…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement