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Peer reviewedMetz, Kathleen E. – Review of Educational Research, 1995
Developmental assumptions that are frequently regarded as constraints on elementary school science curricula are analyzed. The argument that elementary school children cannot function as experimentalists because they have not yet attained formal operational thought is not supported by the Piagetian or non-Piagetian research reviewed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students
Direct linkBeatty, Alix – National Academies Press, 2005
The National Research Council (NRC), through the Center for Education (CFE), wishes to build on the work in early childhood it has already done. In particular, the NRC wishes to focus on research on young children and their learning of mathematical and scientific ideas. The workshop that is the subject of this report, one in a series of workshops…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Child Development, Science Education, Mathematics Education
