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Scandura, Joseph M. – 1974
In a study of mathematics learning, taking a rule-oriented approach, students were taught to trade objects of type A for objects of types B and C. Children ranging from ages 7 to 9 were given rules for converting A to B and B to C and were then presented with the task of converting A to C. Of the 30, 6 succeeded. Of the 24 who failed, half were…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Deduction
Chomsky, Carol – 1969
In this research monograph, several areas of disparity between child and adult grammar are examined to discover at what ages the child, who is on the border of adult language competence, achieves a certain mastery of complex syntactic structures. Chapters include (1) a discussion of current notions on the nature of the linguistic process and a…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Child Language, Comprehension, Context Clues