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DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC THINKING IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: Scientific thinking makes our world more predictive and more comfortable. Although it is difficult to establish an ultimate list of scientific thinking abilities, because they may vary from author to author, probably a widely accepted one includes the reasoning and thinking skills involved in scientific inquiry, such as hypothesis formulation, experimentation, evidence evaluation and drawing inferences. Students’ involvement in a scientific thinking process implies observing, asking relevant questions, making predictions and testing them, documenting data, drawing conclusions and communicating/presenting them. The development of scientific thinking is a topic of interest for both developmental psychologists, from this perspective scientific thinking being regarded as a component of peoples’ complex cognitive abilities, and for educational scientists, preoccupied to find strategies and methods to facilitate the process from early ages, in schools. The aim of this article is to provide a systematic and comprehensive review of research on the topic, emphasizing those strategies and methods whose effectiveness has a strong empirical support and could be indicated to primary school teachers as examples of good practices.

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