Classification Skills in First-Grade Children: The Effects of Different Instructional Methods
- Author(s):
- Tanaka, Masako N.
- Publication Year:
- 1968
- Report Number:
- RM-68-06
- Source:
- ETS Research Memorandum
- Document Type:
- Report
- Page Count:
- 22
- Subject/Key Words:
- Classification, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
Abstract
This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Chicago, Illinois on February 9, 1968. It provides information on a study that investigated the effects of two instructional strategies (object-manipulation and picture-verbalization) on the facilitation of classification skills in first-grade children. The question of what kinds of gains for what kinds of students under what conditions of instruction has posed an ever-critical problem in education, and this investigation attempts to offer some possible directions for further research.
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