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Direct linkMustafa Sami Topçu; Kristen Bethke Wendell; Chelsea Joy Andrews – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2024
Mechanistic reasoning about an artifact or system involves thinking about its underlying entities and the properties, activities, and cause-effect relationships of those entities. Previous studies of children's mechanistic reasoning about engineering solutions have mostly focused on specific mechanical systems such as gear trains. Yet there is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Abstract Reasoning, Logical Thinking, Engineering
