Identity conservation, equivalence conservation, and compensation were assessed in children from kindergarten, first and second grades (ns = 18). Older children performed better on all judgment tasks. However, kindergarten children performed better on identity conservation than the other two tasks, while first and second graders performed similarly on conservation of identity and equivalence but more poorly on compensation.
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