Children's knowledge of the earth: A new methodological and statistical approach

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 276-296

  Straatemeier, Marthe ^a   van der Maas, Han L J ^a   Jansen, Brenda R J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child development; Cognitive development; Earth; Fragmented knowledge; Latent class analysis; Mental models; Rule assessment methodology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITIVE SCIENCE; CONCEPT FORMATION; EARTH (PLANET); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 48949116111     PISSN: 00220965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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