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http://dx.doi.org/10.14697/jkase.2018.38.4.481

A Case Study of Elementary Students' Developmental Pathway of Spatial Reasoning on Earth Revolution and Apparent Motion of Constellations  

Maeng, Seungho (Seoul National University of Education)
Lee, Kiyoung (Kangwon National University)
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Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education / v.38, no.4, 2018 , pp. 481-494 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated elementary students' understanding of Earth revolution and its accompanied apparent motion of constellation in terms of spatial reasoning. We designed a set of multi-tiered constructed response items in which students described their own idea about the reason of consecutive movement of constellations for three months and drew a diagram about relative locations of the Sun, the Earth, and the constellations. Sixty-five sixth grade students from four elementary schools participated in the tests both before and after science classes on the relative movement of Earth and Moon. Their answers to the items were categorized inductively in terms of transforming frames of reference which are observed on the Earth and designed from the Space-based perspective. We analyzed those categories by the levels of spatial reasoning and depicted the change of students' levels between pre/post-tests so that we could get an idea on the preliminary developmental pathway of students' understanding of this topic. The lower anchor description was that constellations move around the Earth with geocentric perspective. Intermediate level descriptions were planar understanding of Earth movement, intuitive idea on constellation movement along with the Earth. Students with intermediate levels did not reach understanding of the apparent motion of constellations. As the upper anchor description students understood the apparent motion of constellations according to the Earth revolution and could transform their frames of reference between Earth-based view and Space-based view. The features as the case of evolutionary learning progressions and critical points of students' development for this topic were discussed.
Keywords
Earth revolution; Apparent motion of constellations; multi-tiered constructed response items; learning progressions;
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