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What Student Language Reveals about the Demands of Learning the Human Circulatory System
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Seah, Lay Hoon – Research in Science Education, 2021
This study examined student language in learning the human circulatory system, to understand the challenges they face in representing the knowledge in this topic. Data for this study comprised students' written responses to a range of structured test items. Responses to 17 test items from 70 students across four classes were analysed using tools…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Human Body, Physiology, Knowledge Representation
Scaffolding Children's Production of Representations along the Three Years of ECE: A Longitudinal Study
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Monteira, Sabela F.; Jiménez-Aleixandre, María Pilar; Siry, Christina – Research in Science Education, 2022
We report a longitudinal study carried out along 3 years in an early childhood education (ECE) classroom in which we examined children's (aged 3-6) engagement with science representations. The research questions are as follows: (1) How do children's science representations develop from ECE1 to ECE3? (2) What are the features and affordances of the…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Early Childhood Education, Longitudinal Studies, Learner Engagement