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Peer reviewedMetz, Kathleen E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
The development of children's causal knowledge is investigated by analyzing changes in the content and form of the explanations they generate across the age span of three to nine years. The balance of incremental versus fundamental change and the forms each takes in children coming to understand the working of gears are examined. Three phases of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedOtero, Jose T.; Campanario, Juan M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Described are the comprehension monitoring abilities of science students when reading science textbooks. The incorrect use of schemata and the limiting influence of metacognitive abilities on the improvement of meaningful learning is discussed. (KR)
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Structures, Comprehension, Learning Processes
Peer reviewedAnderson, O. Roger; Demetrius, Olive J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1993
Method is presented for displaying the sequential and multirelational ideation of scientific narrative elicited from respondents. The flow map provides a figural representation of the flow of information, the points in the flow where multirelational and recurrent linkages are made, and the time required to retrieve and express the information at…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Structures, Constructivism (Learning)
Peer reviewedJones, M. Gail; Carter, Glenda; Rua, Melissa J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000
Examines the relationships and development of communities of concepts related to heat and convection among fifth grade students. Discusses the influence of familial and cultural experiences on conceptual development as well as the extent to which competing phenomena affect the development of new conceptual understandings. (Contains 49 references.)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Discourse Analysis
Peer reviewedBishop, Beth A.; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1990
Discussed are the results of a test administered to nonmajor biology students on the topic of natural selection. The description of student conceptions, effects of instruction, and the effects of a belief in evolution are included. (KR)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Biological Influences, Biology, Cognitive Structures
Direct linkvon Aufschnaiter, Claudia; von Aufschnaiter, Stefan – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2003
In the literature, learners' cognitive development is mainly discussed with respect to changes in learners' content-dependent knowledge (conceptual change or growth). Additional dimensions of time and complexity may also be taken into account to describe cognitive processes in at least three dimensions. We discuss these three dimensions of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Advanced Students, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures
Peer reviewedReif, Frederick; Larkin, Jill H. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1991
Scientific and everyday knowledge domains are compared so as to reveal the distinctive differences between their goals and the cognitive processes used to attain them. The main goals, working goals, learning difficulties, knowledge structure, concept specification, knowledge organization, role of school science, program-solving instruction, formal…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Epistemology, Higher Education
