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Schramm, Thilo; Jose, Anika; Schmiemann, Philipp – Education Sciences, 2021
Phylogenetic trees are important tools for teaching and understanding evolution, yet students struggle to read and interpret them correctly. In this study, we extend a study conducted by Catley and Novick (2008) by investigating depictions of evolutionary trees in US textbooks. We investigated 1197 diagrams from 11 German and 11 United States…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Evolution, Textbooks, Textbook Content
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Jelinek, Jan Amos – Education Sciences, 2021
The Earth's shape concept develops as consecutive cognitive problems (e.g., the location of people and trees on the spherical Earth) are gradually resolved. Establishing the order of problem solving may be important for the organisation of teaching situations. This study attempted to determine the sequence of problems to be resolved based on tasks…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Schemata (Cognition), Earth Science