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Peer reviewedNippold, Marilyn A.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1988
A study of 240 students in grades 4-10 found that fourth graders performed well on a proverb comprehension task involving contextual information, refuting earlier findings that preadolescents interpret proverbs literally. Performance was found to improve steadily through grade eight and was correlated to performance on a perceptual analogical…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Analogy, Cognitive Development
