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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
Phillips, Shelley – 1984
In four parts, this discussion describes characteristics of the thought of infants, preschool children, primary school students, and adolescents. Topics briefly addressed in part I, on the thought processes/capabilities of babies, concern sensorimotor thought without abstraction, the importance of physical exploration, the development of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Association (Psychology), Classification, Cognitive Ability