Acquisition of Concept of Conservation of Length in Elementary School Children through Piagetian Teaching Model

Abstract

 The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of training programme based on Piaget’s theory on the elementary school children’s acquisition of the concept of conservation of length. The experiment involved the use of pre-postdelayed post test design. 40 children were selected for the study out of which 24 constituted the experimental group and 7 children were assigned to the control group on the basis of their pre-test performance. Nine children were not included in the experiment because they have successfully completed the length conservation tasks during the pre-test. Results indicated more than 40 per cent progress immediately after the training but got raised to more than 50 per cent progress at the second post-test. The major implication of the study is on the designing and development of appropriate teaching learning strategy for primary school children.