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Saeed Salimpour; Russell Tytler; Michael T. Fitzgerald; Urban Eriksson – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2023
Cosmology presents students with ideas that stimulate their curiosity and brings together various concepts from STEM that call on a variety of reasoning types across multiple representational modes, involving subtleties of spacetime relations, a variety of models and evidence requiring multiple lines of high precision observations. This study…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Concept Formation, Scientific Concepts
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Lee, Seon-Young; An, Donggun; Choe, Seung-Urn – High Ability Studies, 2020
This study examined if personality types of gifted students predicted their psychiatric symptoms and if the type of giftedness and gender moderated the relationship between the personality and psychiatric manifestations. "The Murphy-Meisgeir Type Indicator for Children" and "the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Predictor Variables, Gender Differences
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Babai, Reuven; Sekal, Rachel; Stavy, Ruth – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
This study investigated whether intuitive, naive conceptions of "living things" based on objects' mobility (movement = alive) persist into adolescence and affect 10th graders' accuracy of responses and reaction times during object classification. Most of the 58 students classified the test objects correctly as living/nonliving, yet they…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Prior Learning, Grade 10, Misconceptions