(1049) DETERMINE THE ATTAINMENT OF CONSERVATION ABILITY AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN THROUGH PIAGET'S COGNITIVE THEORY

摘要

Education is the Key factor through which change the behavior of learner occurs. Education in itsgeneral sense is a from of learning in which the knowledge, skills and attitude or behaviour of a groupof people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research.Piaget's theory of intellectual development has serious implications in the field of education. Piaget'sdiscoveries have had an impact upon curriculum, instruction and assessment in schooling, particularlyfor mathematics. The aim of this study was to determine Piaget's notion of cognitive developmentparticularly his concept of attainment of conservation and to check that either local child of Kohatianperform similarly on Piagetian cognitive tasks to others in the elsewhere and that environmentalfactors such as urbanization and gender factors are similarly related to cognitive development or not.Objectives of this study were:(1) To find out the attainment of conservation ability among primary school children.(2) To compare the conservation ability of rural and urban school children(2) To compare the conservation ability of the male and female school children.To achieve the objectives of the study, following hypotheses were formulated. (1) Primary schoolchildren having the same conservation ability as elsewhere (2) Rural school children having moreconservative ability as compare to urban school children (3) Performance of female children wasbetter than male children.Population of the study included all the private Schools in District Kohat (N.W.F.P) Four schools twofrom urban and two from rural were taken as sample of the study. In the above-mentioned sample 160students were randomly selected 80 from rural and 80 from urban. And from rural 40 male and 40female as well as from urban 40 male and 40 female of Grade 4th and 5th twenty from each grade ofequal proportion of both the gender were selected for the study. Researchers personally visited andadministered the conservative ability tasks (CAT) from the students.To achieve the objectives of the study seven tasks were developed, including, Conservative abilityTask of length, weight, Area, conservation of amount of substance, Conservative ability Task ofQuantity of items, task of volume and Conservation in situations supported by logical Reason. Datawas collected, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using percentage and graphic method. As aresult of data analysis, it was found that a Paiget's theory is same applicable in District Kohat. FurtherRural school children show better performance as compare to urban students due to late enrolmentsin schools and female performance is slightly better as compare to male students.