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This research aims to explore children's understanding of scientific concepts through their responses to various questions.

Symposium: Studies of Children's Scientific Concepts and Interests*

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Symposium reports children’s responses to scientific questions, indicating trends by age and gender.

This research aims to explore children's understanding of scientific concepts through their responses to various questions.
Surveyed over 1,200 children with a schedule of seventy questions on scientific concepts.
Questions covered estimation of length, time, direction, volume, and growth of living things.
Responses analyzed by age and gender, presented as percentages.
Responses classified based on boys' and girls' answers to questions about sky and night.
Age trends identified in the percentage of correct or relevant responses.
Findings indicate different levels of understanding among children as they grow older.

William King (1961) studied this question.

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