A skill approach to the development of geometric thinking.

Title: A skill approach to the development of geometric thinking.
Identifier: AAI9304711
identifier: 9304711
Creator: Nucci, Christine.
Contributor: Adviser: Nicholas J. Anastasiow
Date: 1992
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Education, Educational Psychology | Education, Elementary | Education, Mathematics
Abstract: A skill theory perspective, framing a theoretical and methodological basis for understanding the acquisition of knowledge, was used in examining the extent to which children's behavior revealed a hierarchic acquisition of geometric concepts.;Sixth grade students (N = 18) responded to hierarchical, geometric items, developed in a P. M. van Hiele theory domain. The responses, in the form of videotaped records, were analyzed and subjected to a scalogram method of statistical analysis using Green's (1956) Index of Consistency.;This research is designed to determine whether van Hiele's hierarchical geometry system corresponds to Fischer's Skill Theory Level 10, Representations 4/Abstractions 1. The results are interpreted as supporting Fischer's skill theory model of development. The results are discussed in terms of both their theoretical and their practical implications.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.