The Development of Scientific Thinking in Elementary School: A Comprehensive Inventory

Child Development

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 327-336

  Koerber, Susanne ^a   Mayer, Daniela ^b   Osterhaus, Christopher ^a   Schwippert, Knut ^c   Sodian, Beate ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; DEVICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMETRY; SCHOOL; SCIENCE; STANDARDS; THINKING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; SCHOOLS; SCIENCE; THINKING;

EID: 84922597879     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12298     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Adams, R. J., Wu, M. L., & Wilson, M. (2012). The Rasch rating model and the disordered threshold controversy. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 72, 547-573. doi:10.1177/0013164411432166
2. Akerson, V., & Donnelly, L. A. (2010). Teaching nature of science to K-2 students: What understandings can they attain? International Journal of Science Education, 32, 97-124. doi:10.1080/09500690902717283
3. Azmitia, M., & Montgomery, R. (1993). Friendship, transactive dialogues, and the development of scientific reasoning. Social Development, 2, 202-221. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9507.1993.tb00014.x
4. Bao, L., Fang, K., Cai, T., Wang, J., Yang, L., Cui, L., ... Luo, Y. (2009). Learning of content knowledge and development of scientific reasoning ability: A cross culture comparison. American Journal of Physics, 77, 1118-1123. doi:10.1119/1.2976334
5. Brody, N. (1997). Intelligence, schooling, and society. American Psychologist, 52, 1046-1050. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.52.10.1046
6. Brydges, C. R., Reid, C. L., Fox, A. M., & Anderson, M. (2012). A unitary executive function predicts intelligence in children. Intelligence, 40, 458-469. doi:10.1016/j.intell.2012.05.006
7. Bullock, M., Sodian, B., & Koerber, S. (2009). Doing experiments and understanding science: Development of scientific reasoning from childhood to adulthood. In W. Schneider & M. Bullock (Eds.), Human development from early childhood to early adulthood. Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study (pp. 173-197). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
8. Bullock, M., & Ziegler, A. (1999). Scientific reasoning: Developmental and individual differences. In F. E. Weinert & W. Schneider (Eds.), Individual development from 3 to 12. Findings from the Munich Longitudinal Study (pp. 38-54). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
9. Carey, S., Evans, R., Honda, M., Jay, E., & Unger, C. (1989). An experiment is when you try it and see if it works. A study of junior high school students' understanding of the construction of scientific knowledge. International Journal of Science Education, 11, 514-529. doi:10.1080/0950069890110504
10. Carey, S., & Smith, C. (1993). On understanding the nature of scientific knowledge. Educational Psychologist, 28, 235-251. doi:10.1207/s15326985ep2803_4
11. Ceci, S. J., & Williams, W. M. (1997). Schooling, intelligence, and income. American Psychologist, 52, 1051-1058. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.52.10.1051
12. Chen, Z., & Klahr, D. (1999). All other things being equal: Acquisition and transfer of the control of variables strategy. Child Development, 70, 1098-1120. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00081
13. Chinn, C. A., & Malhotra, B. A. (2002). Children's responses to anomalous scientific data: How is conceptual change impeded? Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 327-343. doi:10.1037/0022-0663.94.2.327
14. Gienger, C., Petermann, F., & Petermann, U. (2008). Wie stark hängen die HAWIK-IV-Befunde vom Bildungsstand der Eltern ab? [How strong is the impact of the parents' SES on HAWIK IV result]. Kindheit und Entwicklung, 17, 90-98. doi:10.1026/0942-5403.17.2.90
15. Hoff, E. (2003). The specificity of environmental influence: Socioeconomic status affects early vocabulary development via maternal speech. Child Development, 74, 1368-1378. doi:10.1111/1467-8624.00612
16. Huttenlocher, J., Levine, S., & Vevea, J. (1998). Environmental input and cognitive growth: A study using time-period comparisons. Child Development, 69, 1012-1029. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06158.x
17. Inhelder, B., & Piaget, J. (1958). The growth of logical thinking from childhood to adolescence. New York, NY: Basic Books.
18. Klahr, D. (2000). Exploring science: The cognition and development of discovery processes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
19. Koerber, S., Sodian, B., Thoermer, C., & Nett, U. (2005). Scientific reasoning in young children: Preschoolers' ability to evaluate covariation evidence. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 64, 141-152. doi:10.1024/1421-0185.64.3.141
20. Kuhn, D. (2010). What is scientific thinking and how does it develop? In U. Goswami (Ed.), Handbook of childhood cognitive development (2nd ed., pp. 472-523). Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
21. Kuhn, D., Amsel, E., & Loughlin, M. (1988). The development of scientific thinking skills. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
22. Lenhard, W., & Schneider, W. (2006). ELFE 1-6. Ein Leseverständnistest für Erst- bis Sechstklässler [A Reading Proficiency Test for First to Sixth Graders]. Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe.
23. Masters, G. N. (1982). A Rasch model for partial credit scoring. Psychometrika, 47, 149-174. doi:10.1007/BF02296272
24. Mayer, D. (2012). Die Modellierung des wissenschaftlichen Denkens im Grundschulalter: Zusammenhänge zu kognitiven Fähigkeiten und motivationalen Orientierungen [Modelling scientific reasoning in elementary school: Relations to cognitive abilities and motivational orientations]. Doctoral dissertation, University of Munich, Germany. Retrieved from http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14497/
25. Mayer, D., Sodian, B., Koerber, S., & Schwippert, K. (2014). Scientific reasoning in elementary school children: Assessment and relations with cognitive abilities. Learning and Instruction, 29, 43-55. doi:10.1016/j.learninstruc.2013.07.005
26. Morris, B. J., Croker, S., Masnick, A. M., & Zimmerman, C. (2012). The emergence of scientific reasoning. In H. Kloos, B. J. Morris, & J. L. Amaral (Eds.), Current topics in children's learning and cognition (pp. 61-82). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.
27. National Research Council. (2012). A framework for K-12 science education: Practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
28. Piekny, J., & Maehler, C. (2013). Scientific reasoning in early and middle childhood: The development of domain-general evidence evaluation, experimentation, and hypothesis generation skills. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 31, 153-179. doi:10.1111/j.2044-835X.2012.02082.x
29. Ruffman, T., Perner, J., Olson, D. R., & Doherty, M. (1993). Reflecting on scientific thinking: Children's understanding of the hypothesis-evidence relation. Child Development, 64, 1617-1636. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1993.tb04203.x
30. Sandoval, W. A. (2005). Understanding students' practical epistemologies and their influence on learning through inquiry. Science Education, 89, 634-656. doi:10.1002/sce.20065
31. Sodian, B., Thoermer, C., Kircher, E., Grygier, P., & Günther, J. (2002). Vermittlung von Wissenschaftsverständnis in der Grundschule [Teaching understanding the nature of science in elementary school]. Zeitschrift für Pädagogik, 45(Suppl.), 192-206.
32. Sodian, B., Zaitchik, D., & Carey, S. (1991). Young children's differentiation of hypothetical beliefs from evidence. Child Development, 62, 753-766. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.1991.tb01567.x
33. Sohr-Preston, S. L., Scaramella, L. V., Martin, M. J., Neppl, T. K., Ontai, L., & Conger, R. (2013). Parental socioeconomic status, communication, and children's vocabulary development: A third-generation test of the family investment model. Child Development, 84, 1046-1062. doi:10.1111/cdev.12023
34. Tschirgi, J. E. (1980). Sensible reasoning: A hypothesis about hypotheses. Child Development, 51, 1-10. doi:10.2307/1129583
35. Weiß, R. H. (2006). Grundintelligenztest Skala 2-Revision (CFT 20-R) [German adaptation of Cattell's Culture Fair Intelligence Test]. Göttingen, Germany: Hogrefe.
36. Zimmerman, C. (2007). The development of scientific thinking skills in elementary and middle school. Developmental Review, 27, 172-223. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2006.12.001