The goal of this article is to provide an integrative review of research that has been
conducted on the development of children's scientific reasoning. Broadly defined, scientific …

The goal of this article is to provide an integrative review of research that has been
conducted on the development of children's scientific reasoning. Scientific reasoning (SR) …

Research on scientific thinking and science education is often based on introspections
about what science is, interviews with scientists, prescriptive accounts of science, and …

Although there is along tradition of research on the development of scientific reasoning, the
impact of this research on science education has been limited and not always constructive …

The goal of science education interventions is to nurture, enrich, and sustain children's
natural and spontaneous interest in scientific knowledge and procedures. We present …

What is the development of scientific thinking the development of? This question guided the
organization of our chapter in the previous volume of the Handbook (Lehrer & Schauble …

The development of scientific thinking was assessed in 1,581 second, third, and fourth
graders (8‐, 9‐, 10‐year‐olds) based on a conceptual model that posits developmental …

This paper explores the scientific reasoning of 14 children across their first two years of
primary school. Children's view of experimentation, their approach to exploration, and their …

This article explores ways of characterizing different dimensions and levels of scientific
reasoning in early elementary school children, in the context of open explorations. The …

The focus of this chapter is on selected aspects of children's scientific reasoning over the
period from 8 to 12 years of age. To put this work in context, we first delineate what we mean …