Two schemes of intellectual development: A comparison of development as defined by william perry and jean piaget

Abstract

The theories of Jean Piaget and William Perry provide two different theories of intellectual development with several similiarities, but also with critical differences. In this study a comparison was made to determine whether the two theories describe operation of the same mental structures or two fundamentally different aspects of intellectual development. The results, based upon individual interviews of all participants, indicate that the two theories outline different and independent processes for assessing intellectual development.

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“…Rather, as previously suggested by others,`post-formal' intellectual development occurs, at least for some students (e.g., Perry, 1970;Arlin, 1975;Commons, Richards, & Armon, 1984;Perry, Donovan, Kelsey, Peterson, Statkiewicz, & Allen, 1986;Welfel & Davison, 1986;Castro & Fernandez, 1987;Commons & Miller, 1997;Commons, Trudeau, Stein, Richards, & Krause, 1998;Yan & Arlin, 1998). Rather, as previously suggested by others,`post-formal' intellectual development occurs, at least for some students (e.g., Perry, 1970;Arlin, 1975;Commons, Richards, & Armon, 1984;Perry, Donovan, Kelsey, Peterson, Statkiewicz, & Allen, 1986;Welfel & Davison, 1986;Castro & Fernandez, 1987;Commons & Miller, 1997;Commons, Trudeau, Stein, Richards, & Krause, 1998;Yan & Arlin, 1998).…”

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“…Rather, as previously suggested by others, 'post-formal' intellectual development occurs, at least for some students (e.g., Arlin, 1975;Castro & Fernandez, 1987;Commons & Miller, 1997;Commons, Richards & Armon, 1984;Commons, Trudeau, Stein, Richards & Krause, 1998;Perry, 1970;Perry, Donovan, Kelsey, Peterson, Statkiewicz & Allen, 1986;Welfel & Davison, 1986;Yan & Arlin, 1998). Evidence has been obtained consistent with the view that some students, perhaps less than one third (see Figure 5) develop reasoning skill associated with hypothesis testing when the hypothesized entities are unobservable.…”

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“…Although theories of Jean Piaget and William Perry are related to critical thinking and have a number of similarities, yet these are different from each other to great extent as per Perry, et al (1986). They compared these two theories in their study and investigated that these two theories use to elaborate mental structures and their operations and intellectual developments in the same way or differently.…”