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Children's Understanding of Experimental Contrast and Experimental Control: An Inventory for Primary School
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Frontline Learning Research, 2015
Experimentation skills are a central component of scientific thinking, and many studies have investigated whether and when primary-school children develop adequate experimentation strategies. However, the answers to these questions vary substantially depending on the type of task that is used: while discovery tasks, which require children to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Experiments, Knowledge Level, Psychometrics
Scientific Thinking in Elementary School: Children's Social Cognition and Their Epistemological Understanding Promote Experimentation Skills
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Osterhaus, Christopher; Koerber, Susanne; Sodian, Beate – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Do social cognition and epistemological understanding promote elementary school children's experimentation skills? To investigate this question, 402 children (ages 8, 9, and 10) in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades were assessed for their experimentation skills, social cognition (advanced theory of mind [AToM]), epistemological understanding (understanding…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Social Cognition, Epistemology, Science Process Skills