Child Classification Test Guide
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OBJECTIVES:
This test reports on the child's ability to group objects accordingly.
a common attribute (or attributes). It implies the understanding of the relationships between
a group of objects or intergroups.
A class implies two types of necessary characteristics or relationships, and they are sufficient.
for its constitution, the qualities that are common to its members and those of the
class that is part of; and the specific differences that exist between the own
members and the elements of the other classes (understanding).
MATERIAL:
4 large squares: 2 blue and 2 yellow.
4 small squares: 2 blues and 2 yellows.
4 large circles: 2 blues and 2 yellows.
4 small circles: 2 blues and 2 yellows.
4 large rectangles: 2 blue and 2 yellow.
4 small rectangles: 2 blue and 2 yellow.
4 big zetas: 2 blues and 2 yellows.
4 zetas girls: 2 blues and 2 yellows.
APPLICATION TECHNIQUES:
The child is given the disordered materials and is asked: "Organize everything that
go together
If the child classifies based on only one criterion (for example, color), they are
help saying: How could you put it to make it even more organized?
If the child has not yet achieved complete classification (size, color, shape), they continue to be supported.
helping in the same way: Could you organize it a little more?
The test is suspended when the child indicates that they have completed their classification, despite the
insinuations of the examiner.
TABULATION:
Pre-operative Stadium:
The child is going to make figurative collections according to his own criteria and variables.
fantastic.
Intermediate Stadium:
It makes non-figurative collections, but uses stable criteria, and so successive, making
small groups according to different qualities. Example: all the
squares, all the yellow ones.
Operating Stadium:
Even when it proceeds due to the amount or the complexity of the material or reaction to the
counter-suggestion if I was wrong, manages to classify all the figures according to
a matrix according to the three criteria simultaneously (shape, size, color).
TEST PROTOCOL:
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The disorganized material is given to the child.
You are asked to arrange it in the best way you can.
After reaching some order, he is asked how he did it.
try to appreciate what variables
usa (size, color, shape).
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2. If you do not achieve the full classification, you are asked 'could you organize it a bit more?'
still?
He is urged until the child believes he has it organized in the best way.
He is asked to explain why he ordered them that way, his observations are noted.
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Answers:
Pre-Operative:
Intermediate:
Operations:
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FUENTE: "Evaluación Cognitiva Escolar" (de 4 a 14 años), Arturo Pinto y Paulina
Dominguez, CPEIP, Chile.