Abstract
Piaget’s theory of cognitive development serves as a basis for a comparative analysis of middle school students’ understanding of classification in the physical and digital library. Attention is also given to student comprehension of scientific classification. Results of this pilot study show that although participants had good comprehension of classification principles in the physical environment, with which they are more familiar, their understanding diminishes in the digital environment and when addressing scientific classification. Results are compared to an earlier study and implications for the design of educational science digital libraries are discussed.
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Greenberg, J., Bullard, K.A., James, M.L., Daniel, E., White, P. (2002). Student Comprehension of Classification Applications in a Science Education Digital Library. In: Agosti, M., Thanos, C. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. ECDL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2458. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45747-X_42
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