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Adequate definitions of abstract and familiar terms rarely appear before the eleventh year

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1910 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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q2 i? Adequate definitions were not given, except sporadically, before the eleventh year, and kindness and pleasure were harder to define than to read and to write. → Carrie Bansom Squire 1910

Evidence

Carrie Bansom Squire 1910

Carrie Bansom Squire. (1910). Graded Mental Tests. Part III. Judgment, Conclusions and Summary of Results. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Graded+Mental+Tests+Squire

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Definition test with ten terms in five pairs given in serial form; answers classed as complete failure, partial definition, or adequate definition. The article reports "Adequate definitions were not given, except sporadically, before the eleventh year".

"Adequate definitions were not given, except sporadically, before the eleventh year; even then very few appear. Kind- ness and pleasure seem more difficult to define than to read and to write."

Discussion

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type claim
id adequate-definitions-rare-before-eleventh-year
title Adequate definitions of abstract and familiar terms rarely appear before the eleventh year
description Adequate definitions of abstract and familiar terms rarely appear before the eleventh year
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 1910
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