Stella Vosniadou

Dr. Stella Vosniadou


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Academic Career Length

45Years (1982-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 October 1992 in Cognitive Psychology
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Stella Vosniadou
WBWilliam F Brewer
William F Brewer

1 January 1994 in Learning and Instruction
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Stella Vosniadou

1 August 2001 in Learning and Instruction
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Stella Vosniadou
CIChristos Ioannides
Christos Ioannides
ADAggeliki Dimitrakopoulou
Aggeliki Dimitrakopoulou
EPEfi Papademetriou
Efi Papademetriou

1 October 2004 in Learning and Instruction
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SSStamatia Stafylidou
Stamatia Stafylidou
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Stella Vosniadou

1 October 2004 in Learning and Instruction
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XVXenia Vamvakoussi
Xenia Vamvakoussi
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Stella Vosniadou

14 April 2010 in Cognition and Instruction
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XVXenia Vamvakoussi
Xenia Vamvakoussi
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Stella Vosniadou
We present an empirical study that investigated seventh-, ninth-, and eleventh-grade students’ understanding of the infinity of numbers in an interval. The participants (n = 549) were asked how many (i.e., a finite or infinite number of numbers) and what type of numbers (i.e., decimals, fractions, or any type) lie between two rational numbers. The results showed that the idea of discreteness (i.e., that fractions and decimals had “successors” like natural numbers) was robust in all age groups; that students tended to believe that the intermediate numbers must be of the same type as the interval endpoints (i.e., only decimals between decimals and fractions between fractions); and that the type of interval endpoints (natural numbers, decimals, or fractions) influenced students’ judgments of the number of intermediate numbers in those intervals. We interpret these findings within the framework theory approach to conceptual change.