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Plummer, Julia D.; Bower, Corinne A.; Liben, Lynn S. – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
This study investigates the role of perspective-taking skills in how children explain spatially complex astronomical phenomena. Explaining many astronomical phenomena, especially those studied in elementary and middle school, requires shifting between an Earth-based description of the phenomena and a space-based reference frame. We studied 7- to…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Perspective Taking, Children, Spatial Ability
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Cheng, Maurice M. W.; Gilbert, John K. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
This study investigated students' interpretation of diagrams representing the human circulatory system. We conducted an interview study with three students aged 14-15 (Year 10) who were studying biology in a Hong Kong school. During the interviews, students were asked to interpret diagrams and relationships between diagrams that represented…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Human Body, Interviews, Grade 10