ATTAINMENT OF CONSERVATION ABILITY AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE LIGHT OF PIAGET’S COGNITIVE THEORY

Education brings positive changes in an individualaccording to the concerned society.In education Piaget's cognitive theoryhas a vital role.Piaget's discoveries have had an impact upon curriculum,instruction and assessment in schooling,particularly for mathematics.The aim of this study was to determine Piaget's notion of cognitivedevelopment particularly his concept of attainment of conservation.Thedesign of the study was descriptive and cross sectional. Population of thestudy included all the Primary Schools in District Kohat, North-West ofPakistan.Sample comprised four schools,two each from urban and ruralareas and a total 160 students including 80 each from rural and urban(Both genders) were selected through simple random sampling.Moreover the sample consisted of grades IV and V with equal proportionof both genders. Seven tasks were developed to attain the objectives ofthis particular study.Data was collected through performance of childrenand further tabulated,analyzed and interpreted by using SPSS 17.Results revealed that rural school children showed slightly betterperformance as compared to urban students,it might be due to lateenrolments in the schools and female performance is slightly better ascompared to male students