Journal of Educational Sciences > Volume 4, No. 1, 1992

Measurement of Formal Thinking According to Piaget Theory of the New Students Who Enrolled at the College of Education in the First Semester of the Academic Year A.H. 1409/ 1410 and Its Relation With Some Variables / Abdullah A. Makoshi

The aim of this study was to measure the cognitive stage of the newly-admitted students in the College of Education, King Saud University in the first semester of the academic year 1989/1990. The most important result was that 73% of the students were at the concrete stage, 26% of the students were at a transitional stage. And 7% (one student) of the students was at the abstract stage. We need to take great caution in interpreting or generalizing the results of this study.