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Preschool Children's Taxonomic Knowledge of Animal Species
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Allen, Michael – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2015
Although taxonomic proficiency is a prerequisite for understanding ideas central to biology, previous research has established that learners frequently misclassify animals by not following the tenets of accepted taxonomic rubrics. This has immediate relevance with the recently revised English National Curriculum now requiring concepts of animal…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Knowledge Level, Animals, Classification
The Scaling of Six Topological Piagetian Groupings, As Well As the Effect that Certain Selected Variables have on the Attainment of These Groupings and Some of Their Homologs in the Logical Domain
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Cohen, Herbert G. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1978
Examines the attainment of Piagetian topological concepts in 100 kindergarten to second graders. Findings reveal a hierarchial pattern of attainment, but one that differs from Piaget's research. Significant differences are found for task performance and grade level but not for task performance and gender. (CP)
Descriptors: Achievement, Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Educational Research
Development of Explanation: Incremental and Fundamental Change in Children's Physics Knowledge.
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Metz, 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