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Jung, Jueun; Chang, Jina; Park, Jisun – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine how the reasoning of elementary school students develops and progresses within a learning progression. In order to do this, we analyzed third, fourth, and fifth grade elementary school students' levels of reasoning about phenomena related to changes of state of water. The results show that higher grades…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills, Logical Thinking, Water
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Resnick, Ilyse; Kastens, Kim A.; Shipley, Thomas F. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2018
This study identifies a population of students who have an intermediate amount of relevant content knowledge and skill for working with data, and characterizes their approach to interpreting a challenging data-based visualization. Thirty-three undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory environmental science course reasoned about salinity…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Visual Aids, Data Interpretation, Undergraduate Students