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Download full textSchizas, Dimitrios; Katrana, Evagelia; Stamou, George – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2013
In the present study we used the technique of word association tests to assess students' cognitive structures during the learning period. In particular, we tried to investigate what students living near a protected area in Greece (Dadia forest) knew about the phenomenon of decomposition. Decomposition was chosen as a stimulus word because it…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Network Analysis, Science Education, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedHatzinikita, Vassilia; Koulaidis, Vasilis – Research in Science and Technological Education, 1997
Explores both the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of pupils' ideas related to conservation during state changes of water. Analysis of questionnaire data indicates that qualitative understanding precedes quantitative. Contains 18 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Conservation (Concept)
Vosniadou, Stella; Brewer, William F. – 1990
This document reports the results of a cross-cultural study on children's knowledge about the shape, gravity, movement, and location of the Earth and about the day/night cycle. The subjects of the study were elementary school students from Greece (N=90) and the United States (N=60). The results of the study showed that the children in both samples…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Comparative Education
