Understandings and misunderstandings of eighth graders of four physics concepts found in textbooks

Part I: Cognitive development in children: Piaget development and learning

Jean Piaget · Journal of Research in Science Teaching · 1964 · 1.6K citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology +7

Spontaneous Reasoning in Elementary Dynamics

Laurence Viennot · European Journal of Science Education · 1979 · 655 citations

Education, Secondary Education, Cognitive Psychology +5

Research on conceptual understanding in mechanics

Lillian C. McDermott · Physics Today · 1984 · 627 citations

Education, Physics, Science Education +16

The Origin of the Idea of Chance in Children

Joan Tamburrini, Jean Piaget, Bärbel Inhelder · British Journal of Educational Studies · 1976 · 464 citations

Education, Educational Psychology, Psychology +7

Children's conceptions of the changes of state of water

Roger Osborne, Mark Cosgrove · Journal of Research in Science Teaching · 1983 · 395 citations

Education, Science Education, Teaching +8