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SYMPOSIUM: STUDIES OF CHILDREN'S SCIENTIFIC CONCEPTS AND INTERESTS *
Author(s) -
KING W. H.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1961.tb01696.x
Subject(s) - psychology , developmental psychology
S ummary . This paper describes the responses of more than 1,200 children to a schedule of seventy questions dealing with estimation of length, time, direction; with volume, weight, shadows, etc. Several questions were concerned with growth of living things. The replies to two questions concerning sky and night are classified according to nature of response. Results are tabulated in terms of percentages for boys and girls with increasing chronological age, and the types of questions considered in terms of the age trends.