caa a22 4500 475789075 CHVBK 20180406123706.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF03173180 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF03173180 Kikas Eve Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, 78 Tiigi Street, EE2 400, Tartu, Estonia aut The influence of teaching on students' explanations and illustrations of the day/night cycle and seasonal changes [Elektronische Daten] [Eve Kikas] The paper deals with the problems of students' everyday conceptions of the day/night cycle and seasonal changes and the influence of teaching on these conceptions. Students of regular state schools and an alternative Waldorf school were compared. Textbook analysis was carried out and 276 schoolchildren from grades 3-9 were questioned in written form. Children's explanations and illustrations were analyzed and compared with those found in the textbooks. The results showed that students need much more guidance in learning contemporary explanations of astronomical phenomena in school. It was shown that textbooks used in regular schools provide confusing and misleading information that is misinterpreted by children. It was shown that regular school students relied for their answers more on verbal facts taught in school, but Waldorf school students gave more simple descriptive answers. Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada, Lisbon, Portugal/ Springer Netherlands, 2000 Astronomical concepts nationallicence Conceptual development nationallicence Influence of teaching nationallicence European Journal of Psychology of Education Springer Netherlands 15/3(2000-09-01), 281-295 0256-2928 15:3<281 2000 15 10212 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03173180 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03173180 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kikas Eve Department of Psychology, University of Tartu, 78 Tiigi Street, EE2 400, Tartu, Estonia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Journal of Psychology of Education Springer Netherlands 15/3(2000-09-01), 281-295 0256-2928 15:3<281 2000 15 10212 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer