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Students' understandings of human organs and organ systems

Reiss, MJ; Tunnicliffe, SD; (2001) Students' understandings of human organs and organ systems. Research in Science Education , 31 (3) pp. 383-399. 10.1023/A:1013116228261. Green open access

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Abstract

How do people develop their understanding of what is inside them? This study looks at students' understandings of their internal structure. A cross-sectional approach was used involving a total of 158 students in England from six different age groups (ranging from four year old students to first year undergraduates). Students were given a blank piece of A4-sized paper and asked to draw what they thought was inside themselves. Repeated inspections of the completed drawings allowed us to construct a seven point scale of these representations. Our analysis shows the extent to which student understanding increases with age and the degree to which students know more about some organs and organ systems than others. While gender differences in the drawings were generally not large there were some intriguing differences in the ways males and females drew reproductive organs. © 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Type: Article
Title: Students' understandings of human organs and organ systems
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013116228261
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1490583
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