Did ColumbusHypothesizeorPredictThat if He Sailed Due West, He Would Arrive at the Indies?

A review of the literature in science education shows that most students have difficulties in hypothetico—deductive reasoning. The author's objective in this study was to investigate the abilities of high school teachers and university teachers to understand the difference between the terms hypothesis and prediction in the everyday context of Columbus's discovery of America. The author asked 83 high school and university teachers enrolled in a...