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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Children's Understanding of Scientific Inquiry: Their Conceptualization of Uncertainty in Investigations of Their Own Design
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Cognition and Instruction, 2004
The study examined children's understanding of scientific inquiry, through the lens of their conceptualization of uncertainty in investigations they had designed and implemented with a partner. These largely student-regulated investigations followed a unit about animal behavior that emphasized the scaffolding of independent inquiry. Participants…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Inquiry, Animal Behavior, Concept Formation
Emergent Understanding and Attribution of Randomness: Comparative Analysis of the Reasoning of Primary Grade Children and Undergraduates.
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Cognition and Instruction, 1998
Compared kindergartners', third graders', and undergraduates' understanding and attribution of randomness. Found that kindergartners' interpretations were deterministic or outside the determinancy-indeterminancy frame. Most third graders had some grasp of randomness; their interpretations were less dominated by false attribution of determinism…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Preschoolers' Developing Knowledge of the Pan Balance: From New Representation to Transformed Problem Solving.
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Cognition and Instruction, 1993
Using a balance-beam task, studied 48 preschoolers to elucidate the process of knowledge construction from the emergence of new representation to transformed problem solving. Analyses revealed a multifaceted development from the first signs of weight representation to fully elaborated weight-based problem solving. Case studies of five children…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Feedback, Physics