20.500.12556/RUL-107489 Primary school studentsʼ conceptions about owls, experiences with owls and their sources of information The present research explores benefits of using young students’ drawings in combination with written responses for gathering information about science concepts. Younger students are still very limited in their verbal expression and less biologically literate than older students. The aim was to determine primary school students’ conceptions about owls, experiences with owls and their sources of information, and to then determine how beneficial it is to combine information gathered from drawings and written responses in comparison to previous research done with lower secondary school students. Altogether, 280 students attending fourth and fifth grades from schools in Slovenia participated in the research. Students knew well the specific features of owls. Drawings provided more clear information about body parts and proportions, while owls’ specific habitats, behaviours and diet were more thoroughly described in their written responses. Students without experiences with living owls represented owls less thoroughly. Comparison of frequencies of responses in main categories of conceptions about owls showed that using drawings and written responses is equally beneficial for younger and older students. Gathering primary school students’ conceptions about science concepts with both drawings and written responses enables better assessment of a student’s knowledge than using just drawings or written responses. primary school student conceptions about owls experiences with owls student’s drawing student’s written response sove risbe naravoslovni koncepti pisni odgovori true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Podatek o licenci CC BY-NC 4.0 je naveden na pristajalni strani članka (glej zgoraj izvorni URL). (Datum opombe: 8. 9. 2025) Članek v reviji 2019-04-20 03:02:18 2019-05-16 10:06:55 2025-09-08 15:42:52 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2019 0 0 Str. 254-263 no. 2 Vol. 18 2019 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 373.32:59 2538-7138 10.33225/jbse/19.18.254 12372809 Torkar_Owls.pdf Torkar_Owls.pdf 1 3DFB8A98E634A0A33C00D38DF38EF58B c3f6738f2e8ce494ec9ac97757a9822c50e15132e35927656b4593d226494e48 98e17e60-1ab2-11f0-b232-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=206633 https://www.scientiasocialis.lt/jbse/?q=node/752 0 1265a933-8cb9-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=216403 Pedagoška fakulteta 0 0 0