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Aaron Chuey; Amanda McCarthy; Kristi Lockhart; Emmanuel Trouche; Mark Sheskin; Frank Keil – npj Science of Learning, 2021
Previous research shows that children effectively extract and utilize causal information, yet we find that adults doubt children's ability to understand complex mechanisms. Since adults themselves struggle to explain how everyday objects work, why expect more from children? Although remembering details may prove difficult, we argue that exposure…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Memory, Children, Expertise
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Darwish, Ata H. – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine the abstract thinking levels of the science students attending the first and fourth year at two Palestinian Universities (Al-Aqsa and Al-Azhar). The sample consisted of 133 students from Science Education Departments (SE). The tool, used to measure abstract thinking, was one of the Science Reasoning Tasks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Science, Science Education, Abstract Reasoning