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Children's Performance on a Test of the Concept of Horizontality, Using Water Levels

Children's Performance on a Test of the Concept of Horizontality, Using Water Levels A test of the concept of horizontality was devised to examine the performance of a sample of 861 Australian school children in grades 1 to 6 tested in their classrooms. They were required to pencil in the water on eight outline drawings of a bottle standing at various angles. The concept was found to be quite difficult to attain, for not until age 10 years did more than 50% of subjects score well. A confusion of the horizontal and vertical was observed with some subjects, the confusion significantly occurring with those who had developed an appreciable understanding of the concept of horizontality, but were not fully operational. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

Children's Performance on a Test of the Concept of Horizontality, Using Water Levels

Australian Journal of Education , Volume 19 (2): 2 – Jun 1, 1975

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 1975 Australian Council for Educational Research
ISSN
0004-9441
eISSN
2050-5884
DOI
10.1177/000494417501900208
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Abstract

A test of the concept of horizontality was devised to examine the performance of a sample of 861 Australian school children in grades 1 to 6 tested in their classrooms. They were required to pencil in the water on eight outline drawings of a bottle standing at various angles. The concept was found to be quite difficult to attain, for not until age 10 years did more than 50% of subjects score well. A confusion of the horizontal and vertical was observed with some subjects, the confusion significantly occurring with those who had developed an appreciable understanding of the concept of horizontality, but were not fully operational.

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Australian Journal of EducationSAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1975

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