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Changing Your Mind with Evidence
Be willing to change your mind when evidence doesn't support your prediction — a result that surprises you is more valuable than one that confirms what you already thought
Suggested ages 6–8
Evidence of understanding
- belief revision in children research (PMC 2020)
- hypothesis testing and argumentation from evidence in young children
Assessment prompt
If Changing Your Mind with Evidence predicts what will happen in an experiment and gets a different result, do they accept the evidence rather than deciding the experiment must have gone wrong?
Standards alignment
No external standards are linked to this topic.