New Study Examines How Science Reasoning Develops Across 16 Countries

The study will compare science-reasoning performance across age groups to characterize how these skills develop across diverse cultural and educational contexts.

By examining data from 16 countries within a shared analytic framework, the project will assess both common developmental patterns and meaningful cross-context variation.

What’s Next

The team is finalizing the preregistered analysis plan and preparing the cross-national dataset for harmonized analysis.

Why It Matters

Mapping developmental trajectories across diverse settings can show which features of science reasoning are broadly shared and which are shaped by educational and cultural experience.