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Keller, Harold R.; Hunter, Mary L. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1973
Authors emphasize the importance of investigating the effects of task variables on multiple dependent measures at various age levels and points in time. (Authors/CB)
Descriptors: Conservation (Concept), Cues, Grade 1, Performance Factors
Miller, Patricia H.; Heldmeyer, Karen H. – 1974
This paper presents a study designed to clarify the role of perceptual-attentional factors in the development of conservation, and relates the results to procedures for assessing conservation. Subjects were 192 first and second graders. The number and type of perceptual cues in the conservation of liquid quantity task were systematically varied.…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Conservation (Concept)
Carpenter, Thomas P. – 1971
The major purpose of this study was 1) to investigate the development of the concept of a unit of measure and the coordination of unit size and the number of units 2) to relate this development to the development of conservation and 3) to determine the role of equivalence and nonequivalence relations in certain conservation and measurement…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Children, Cognitive Measurement