Many science curricula and standards emphasise that students should learn both scientific
knowledge and the skills associated with the construction of this knowledge. One way to …

Young children are adept at several types of scientific reasoning, yet older children and
adults have difficulty mastering formal scientific ideas and practices. Why do “little scientists” …

Early scientific thinking in kindergarten (6-year-olds) was investigated in a large study
involving 227 participants. We investigated (1) whether individual differences across 3 …

El estudio de las funciones ejecutivas, un concepto que nace desde la neurociencia, ha
tenido un crecimiento exponencial en los últimos 20 años. Dicho crecimiento permite …

Abstract This 6‐wave longitudinal study (2014–2018) of 161 German 5‐to 10‐year‐olds
from a midsized city and rural area in southern Germany (89 females, 72 males; …

Although attention and early associative learning in preverbal children is predominantly
driven by rapid eye-movements in response to moving visual stimuli and sounds/words (eg …

Inquiry-based lessons have been demonstrated to improve children's scientific thinking (ie
reasoning abilities and domain-specific knowledge). Although empirical evidence shows …

Do social cognition and epistemological understanding promote elementary school
children's experimentation skills? To investigate this question, 402 children (ages 8, 9, and …

Scientific reasoning competencies are highlighted in science education policy papers and
standard documents in various countries around the world and pre-service science teachers …

The objective of the current study was to identify an effective learning environment for
kindergarten students as they acquire an initial understanding of scientific inquiry activities …