A cross-age study of junior high school students' conceptions of basic astronomy concepts

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Building a learning progression for celestial motion: Elementary levels from an earth‐based perspective (2010, background): “Previous surveys of middle school (Trumper, 2001a) and high school students (Lightman & Sadler, 1993; Trumper, 2001b) found that the majority of students believe that the sun passes directly overhead, a misconception perpetuated by the everyday saying that the sun is ‘‘overhead.”
Big Ideas: A review of astronomy education research 1974–2008 (2010, methodology): “This is substantiated by researchers, such as Baxter ( 1991 ) and Jarman and McAleese ( 1996 ) in the UK, Trumper ( 2001a ) in Israel, and Stahly et al.”