Analysis Of The Poem ' Tortoise And The Hare '

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I had many different test subjects that were available to me over Labor Day weekend, so it was difficult to pick which one to use. The subject that I picked was my 10 year old cousin Sarah. She has two older brothers, and she attends the Renaissance Expedition Learn Outward Bound School in Castle Rock, Colorado where she is a fourth grader. The testing took place at the kitchen table at our lake house. Sarah and I were the only ones that were inside that cabin when I was doing the testing on her, so there were no distractions. When I told her that I needed to do some tests on her, she was a little leery, but once I told her it needed to do it for one of my classes she was more than willing to participate. The first test that we did was the interpretation of stories. For this I told her that story of the “Tortoise and the Hare” upon completion of the story I asked her what the story means. Sarah’s response to the story was that you think you’re the best, but don’t brag about it because you can get beat at any time. Others don’t like when people think they are better than someone else and brag because at any time the can be beaten. I think that Sarah would be in the formal operational stage. I think this because her response didn’t say anything about the story that I had told to her, it was all based on the moral of the story. The moral in this story can be applied to anything that you do in your life. Classification was the next test that I performed on Sarah. For this task I gathered a magazine picture, marker, chalk, notebook paper, typing paper, thumb tack, straight pin, tape, and paper sack. I place all of these items in front of her and told her to classify them. After I told her that she looked at me like what are you ta... ... middle of paper ... ...pleting this task. I think this because she had a pattern in mind and she didn’t just keep rearranging the numbers in a random order. She had a method to how she was going to make sure she got all of the three digit numbers possible out of the numbers she was given. By conducting all of these tests it has showed me various ways that people will think about different ways to do things. Sarah would be in the formal operational stage, according to Piaget. I would say this because in all of the tests that I performed on her the results were in the formal operational stage. I was a little surprised that she was in the formal stage and not the concrete operational stage. After thinking about this more I have determined it makes sense that she is in the formal stage, especially because of her age she should be approaching more of the formal operational stage.

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