Calls for reforms in the ways we teach science at all levels, and in all disciplines, are wide
spread. The effectiveness of the changes being called for, employment of student-centered …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …

Betty Fable's first day at the prestigious Constructivist Academy was somewhat disorienting.
In European History, the teacher challenged each student to write a letter from a French …

A threshold concept can be considered as akin to a portal, opening up a new and previously
inaccessible way of thinking about something. It represents a transformed way of …

In a repeated measures design (pretest, posttest, 1-year follow-up) with 161 3rd-grade
students, the authors compared 2 curricula on floating and sinking within constructivist …

Philosophers of biology have long argued that Darwin's theory of evolution was qualitatively
different from all earlier theories of evolution. Whereas Darwin's predecessors and …

Students are frequently exposed to and required to remember unfamiliar or incongruent
information. In some cases, students choose to modify their current knowledge and beliefs …

This research analyzes students' conceptual change across a semester in an 8th-grade
thermodynamics curriculum. Fifty students were interviewed 5 times during their 8th-grade …

Cognitive psychology is a young science, but key ideas trace back millennia. Plato puzzled
over how we come to know things we had not known before, and Aristotle contemplated …

Over the last two decades, a significant body of research has documented the nature of
intuitive physics knowledge—the knowledge of the world that students bring to the learning …