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Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Piagetian levels

Overview

  • Influence: Piagetian levels
  • Domain: Student
  • Sub-Domain: Prior knowledge and background
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
  • Influence Definition: A theory of cognitive development articulated by the Swiss developmental psychologist Jean Piaget. According to this model, human beings pass through four stages—sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational—as they advance to maturity, although each stage or level has interstitial elements.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 1
  • Number of studies: 51
  • Number of students: 6,000
  • Number of effects: 65
  • Weighted mean effect size: 1.28
  • Robustness index: 2

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
ERIC Jordan & Brownlee USA Meta-Analysis of the Relationship between Piagetian and School Achievement Tests 1981 Piagetian tasks and reading and math 51 6,000 65 1.28
TOTAL/AVERAGE 51 6,000 65 1.28
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