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Information Processing Capacity, Logical Reasoning Ability, and the Development of Measurement Concepts. Working Paper No. 299.
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Hiebert, James; Carpenter, Thomas P. – 1980
This study investigated: (1) the relationship between the development of information processing capacity and certain Piagetian logical reasoning abilities; and (2) how the development of these cognitive abilities related to acquisition of certain measurement concepts. Forty first-grade children were individually administered tests of conservation…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)