Cecil R. Trueblood

Modes of Instruction for Teaching Linear Measurement Skills

AbstractSixty-six first and second grade subjects were classified as conservers or nonconservers and randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups. Each treatment group received linear metric measurement instruction in either a manipulative, graphic, or abstract mode. Subjects responded in the manipulative mode. The instructional period lasted thirty minutes per day for four successive days. It was found that subjects receiving manipulative instruction acquired linear metric measurement skills to a greater degree than under the graphic mode. Manipulative and abstract mode instruction produced equivalent results.

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