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Download full textAagaard, Lola; Boram, Robert – 2003
Jean Piaget's classic theory of cognitive development would imply that the higher-order items on the Kentucky state assessment would only be possible for students well into concrete operations or beginning formal operations. The implication would be that Kentucky fourth graders who are not fully concrete yet may be hitting a developmental ceiling…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Formal Operations, Grade 4
