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Data from Tivnan (1980) measuring changes in cognitive growth over a three-week period in a sample of 17 first and second-graders.

Usage

cognitive_growth

Format

A person-period data frame with 445 rows and 4 columns:

id

Child ID.

game

Game number. Each child played up to a maximum of 27 games.

nmoves

The number of moves completed before making a catastrophic error.

read

Score on an unnamed standardized reading test.

Source

Tivnan, T. (1980). Improvements in performance on cognitive tasks: The acquisition of new skills by elementary school children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Harvard University, Graduate School of Education.