Evaluation of Piaget's Concrete Operational Tasks on Seriation and Transivity Among Enugu Children: Locality as Factors

Abstract

The study investigated evaluation of Piaget's concrete operational tasks on seriation and transivity among Enugu children: locality as factor. A total of 527 participants comprising 267 urban (118 male/149 female) and 260 rural (116 male/144 female) pupils attending urban and rural schools based on locality, and also based on gender (234 male/293 female) were used for the study. The sampling technique was based on multi stage sampling of pupils attending the urban and rural schools. The participants were within the ages of 7-11 years with a mean age of 8.29. Four sets of objects developed by the researcher to measure seriation, and transivity were used for the study. A 2x2x5 factorial design was adopted while a 2x2x5 Multiple analyses of variance F-test (MANOVA) was used as a statistic. Statistical analysis based on data obtained yielded a non-significant multivariate effect of the three independent variables in relation to the two dependent variables. Meaning that, children's good performance in concrete operational tasks of seriation and transivity varied in some degrees with regard to locality.

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