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ERIC Number: EJ253072
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Oct
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Teaching Preadolescents to Act as Scientists: Replication and Extension of an Earlier Study.
Greenbowe, Thomas; And Others
Journal of Educational Psychology, v73 n5 p705-11 Oct 1981
Sixty fifth-grade students were randomly assigned to a group to be trained in solving Inhelder and Piaget's pendulum problem by Siegler's method or to a control group. A significant training effect was found. A weak transfer effect was found, but delayed performance showed no training effect. (Author/BW)
Descriptors: Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Problem Solving, Science Education, Scientific Concepts, Teaching Methods, Transfer of Training
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Piagetian Tasks