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ERIC Number: EJ396978
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1989
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Children's Understanding of Class Inclusion Hierarchies: The Relationship between External Representation and Task Performance.
Greene, Terry R.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v48 n1 p62-89 Aug 1989
Three studies investigated second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade students' understanding of class inclusion hierarchies and the relationship of such understanding to the ability to construct external representations for hierarchically structured information. Children understood hierarchical relations and relations expressed in tree diagrams as early as second grade. (SAK)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Grade 2, Grade 4, Grade 6, Psychological Studies, Semantics, Vertical Organization
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Hierarchical Structural Analysis