The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to the growing body of research on
the development of scientific reasoning skills. The focus is on the reasoning and problem …

This review integrates 4 major approaches to the study of science—historical accounts of
scientific discoveries, psychological experiments with nonscientists working on tasks related …

Este libro es una herramienta básica para la comprensión de los procesos de aprendizaje y
sus implicaciones para la enseñanza. Mario Carretero analiza conceptos e ideas que …

The battle between religion and science, competing methods of knowing ourselves and our
world, has been raging for many centuries. Now scientists themselves are looking at …

This paper presents the results of an experiment which investigated elementary school
children's conceptual knowledge about the earth. First-, 3rd-, and 5th-grade children were …

Understanding how science students respond to anomalous data is essential to
understanding knowledge acquisition in science classrooms. This article presents a detailed …

American science education has faltered, from just about everyone's perspective. American
students rank near or at the bottom in international surveys of science achievement. Science …

Figure 2.1. Taxonomy of theoretical views of the nature of concepts. 18 Figure 2.2. A simple
network with three layers. 26 Figure 2.3. Example of a conceptual hierarchy. 31 Figure 3.1 …

The goal of this article is to provide an integrative review of research that has been
conducted on the development of children's scientific reasoning. Broadly defined, scientific …

This article presents the results of an experiment which investigated elementary school
children's explanations of the day/night cycle. First, third, and fifth grade children were asked …