Investigation into Korean Elementary School Students’ Analogical Reasoning

Abstract

Children before the stage of formal operations suggested by Piaget, are traditionally not able to solve a:b::c:d analogical tasks with their analogical reasoning because they don’t use higher-order relations. However, Postpiagetian claims that if the objects are familiar and children understand a:b::c:d tasks, children are able to solve the a:b::c:d analogy tasks. So, in our study, we investigated the ability of Korean elementary school students’ analogical reasoning with a:b::c:d analogy tasks.