According to Pascual-Leone, potential for learning in the neo-Piaget-ian framework complements the neo-Vygotskian framework for assessment of learning potential, a manifestation of the child's zone of proximal development. Data obtained in a 1998 study by Niaz and Caraucan with three groups of children (7- to 10-yr.-olds, N = 94) are reinterpreted as showing the two interpretations are complementary.
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