Reasoning about Structure and Function: Children's Conceptions of Gears

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 3-25

  Lehrer, Richard ^a   Schauble, Leona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011977314     PISSN: 00224308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2736(199801)35:1<3::AID-TEA2>3.0.CO;2-X     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Baillargeon, R. (1987). Young infants' reasoning about the physical and spatial characteristics of a hidden object. Cognitive Development, 2, 179-200.
2. Brandes, A. (1992, April). Children's understanding of machines. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
3. Bullock, M., Gelman, R., & Baillargeon, R. (1982). The development of causal reasoning. In W.J. Friedman (Ed.), The developmental psychology of time (pp. 209-254). New York: Academic Press.
4. diSessa, A. (1993). Toward an epistemology of physics. Cognition and Instruction, 10, 105-225.
5. Gentner, D., & Stevens, A.L., Eds. (1982). Mental models. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
6. Kline, M. (1980). Mathematics: The loss of certainty. New York: Oxford University Press.
7. Lehrer, R. (1993). Authors of knowledge: Patterns of hypermedia design. In S.P. Lajoie & S.J. Derry (Eds.), Computers as cognitive tools (pp. 197-227). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
8. Lehrer, R., Schauble, L., Carpenter, S., & Penner, D. (in press). The inter-related development of inscriptions and conceptual understanding. In P. Cobb, E. Yackel, & K. McClain (Eds.), Symbolizing and communicating in mathematics classrooms: Perspectives on discourse, tools, and instructional design. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
9. Metz, K. (1991). Development of explanation: Incremental and fundamental changes in children's physics knowledge. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 28, 785-797.
10. Metz, K.E. (1985). The development of children's problem solving in a gears task: A problem space perspective. Cognitive Science, 9, 431-471.
11. Penner, D., Giles, N.D., Lehrer, R., & Schauble, L. (1997). Building functional models: Designing an elbow. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 34, 135-143.
12. Perry, M., Graham, T., Freedman, A., & Woolley, J. (1992, April). The impact of verbal and manipulative instruction on understanding the movement of gears. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
13. Piaget, J. (1960). The child's conception of causality (M. Gabain, Trans.). Paterson, NJ: Littlefield, Adams, & Co.
14. Schauble, L., & Lehrer, R. (1995, April). Thinking about simple machines: Model-based reasoning in design contexts. In E.D. Amsel, The development of scientific reasoning. Symposium presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN.
15. Shultz, T.R. (1982). Rules of causal attribution. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (Monograph 47). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
16. Shultz, T.R., & Kestenbaum, N. (1984). Causal reasoning in children. In G.J. Whitehurst (Ed.), Annals of child development, Vol. 2 (pp. 195-249). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
17. Spelke, E.S. (1991). Physical knowledge in infancy: Reflections on Piaget's theory. In S. Carey and R. Gelman (Eds.), The epigenesis of mind: Essays on biology and cognition (pp. 133-170). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.