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Download full textDavis, Robert S.; Ginns, Ian S.; McRobbie, Campbell J. – Journal of Technology Education, 2002
Students in grades 2 (n=27), 4 (n=37), and 6 (n=28) were asked questions about artifacts or pictures. Their explanations, which revealed their understanding of such technological concepts as material properties and stability, were classified as naive, artifact related, or not artifact related. Explanations tended to cluster in a classification at…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
