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Direct linkSharp, John G.; Sharp, Jane C. – Research Papers in Education, 2007
Children's ideas about the Earth in space have been of interest to science educators and cognitive psychologists for some time. By focusing almost exclusively on shape and gravity alone, however, other important Earth attributes have been largely neglected or overlooked. Findings from a quasi-experimental study of knowledge acquisition and concept…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Scoring Rubrics, Scoring
Download full textDe Jong, Eddy J.; Gunstone, Richard F. – 1988
The broad focus of this study was on the role students' existing conceptions play in the process of constructing and understanding mechanics concepts. The study was a naturalistic one, conducted over a number of years, at all grade levels, in one all-boys secondary school in Australia. In particular it was concerned with identifying and…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedBransky, Judith; And Others – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1992
Compares the reasoning capabilities of preservice elementary school teachers before and after their involvement in a remedial science program that incorporated instruction in basic conceptual knowledge with reasoning strategies about manipulation of variables and logical inference. Discussion of results emphasizes recurring logical fallacies. (22…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Concept Formation, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
Blown, E. J.; Bryce, T. G. K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2006
The development of children's cosmologies was investigated over a 13-year period, using multi-modal, in-depth interviews with 686 children (217 boys, 227 girls from New Zealand and 129 boys, 113 girls from China), aged 2-18. Children were interviewed while they "observed" the apparent motion of the Sun and Moon, and other features of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Astronomy, Concept Formation, Motion
