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ERIC Number: EJ157262
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1976
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An Experimental Study of the Development of Formal Operational Thought
Kuhn, Deanna; Angelev, John
Child Development, 47, 3, 697-706, Sep 76
A total of 82 fourth and fifth graders participated in a 15-week intervention program during which they confronted problems requiring formal operational thought. Subjects showed advancement toward formal operations on the pendulum and chemicals problems (Inhelder and Piaget) and on a third problem on immediate and 4-month posttests. (Author/JH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Problem Solving
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Identifiers: Formal Operations; Piaget (Jean)