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 …

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 encompasses the cognitive skills used when conducting a deliberate
scientific investigation. As there are not that many instruments available for assessing …

Research on the development of scientific reasoning has put the main focus on children's
experimentation skills, in particular on the control-of-variables strategy. However, there are …

Changing one variable at a time while controlling others is a key aspect of scientific
experimentation and a central component of STEM curricula. However, children reportedly …

A research link between conditional reasoning and mathematics has been reported only for
late adolescents and adults, despite claims about the pivotal importance of conditional …

Although scientific reasoning is not a formal, independent school subject, it is an
increasingly important skill, especially for student learning in science, technology …

Scientific reasoning encompasses domain-specific content knowledge that is based on a
specific domain (eg physical concepts), and domain-general knowledge based on principles …

One of the main goals of the education system is to develop thinking skills in learners; that is,
to teach children how to think and reason in the realm of general knowledge and specific …

Este artículo expone el modelado mediante la técnica de autómatas finitos deterministas
(AFD), del procedimiento de control de variables, por parte de resolutores de diferente edad …