Students’ Understandings of their Internal Structure as Revealed by Drawings Export

@incollection{citeulike:5972047, abstract = {How do people develop their understanding of what is inside them? This study looks at students' understandings of their internal structure. A cross-sectional approach was used involving a total of 158 students in England from six different age groups (ranging from 4 year-olds to first year undergraduates). Students were given a blank piece of A4-sized paper and asked to draw what they thought was inside themselves. Repeated inspections of the completed drawings allowed us to construct a seven point scale of these representations. Our analysis shows the extent to which student understanding increases with age and the degree to which pupils know more about some organs and organ systems than others.}, author = {Reiss, Michael and Tunnicliffe, Sue}, citeulike-article-id = {5972047}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47639-8_12}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/vw6107m451967171}, doi = {10.1007/0-306-47639-8_12}, journal = {Research in Science Education - Past, Present, and Future}, keywords = {age\_groups, body\_interior, body\_organs, internal\_structure, misconceptions, organs}, pages = {101--106}, posted-at = {2009-10-19 19:47:12}, priority = {2}, title = {Students' Understandings of their Internal Structure as Revealed by Drawings}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47639-8_12}, year = {2001} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:5972047 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5972047 N2 - How do people develop their understanding of what is inside them? This study looks at students’ understandings of their internal structure. A cross-sectional approach was used involving a total of 158 students in England from six different age groups (ranging from 4 year-olds to first year undergraduates). Students were given a blank piece of A4-sized paper and asked to draw what they thought was inside themselves. Repeated inspections of the completed drawings allowed us to construct a seven point scale of these representations. Our analysis shows the extent to which student understanding increases with age and the degree to which pupils know more about some organs and organ systems than others. JF - Research in Science Education - Past, Present, and Future EP - 106 TI - Students’ Understandings of their Internal Structure as Revealed by Drawings SP - 101 KW - age_groups KW - body_interior KW - body_organs KW - internal_structure KW - misconceptions KW - organs AU - Reiss, Michael AU - Tunnicliffe, Sue PY - 2001/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47639-8_12 ER -