Representing one type of team cognition, team mental models (TMMs) are organized mental
representations of the key elements within a team's relevant environment that are shared …

Understanding issues involved in expertise in physics problem solving is important for
helping students become good problem solvers. In part 1 of this article, we summarize the …

Providing differentiated instruction (DI) is considered an important but complex teaching skill
which many teachers have not mastered and feel unprepared for. In order to design …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

The Essentials of Instructional Design, 4th Edition introduces the fundamental elements,
principles, and practice of instructional design (ID) to students new to ID. Key procedures …

This chapter presents an overview of the current state of cognitive task analysis (CTA) in
research and practice. CTA uses a variety of interview and observation strategies to capture …

When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's
not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of …

Personnel-selection research has clearly expanded from its early interest in documenting
predictor-criterion relationships. There has been great progress in considering a broader …

Studies of performance in medicine are often based on observation. Videotape provides a
valuable tool for recording events from both real environments and simulators. When …

Our purpose here is to provide an overview of the cognitive and socioemotional changes
associated with aging and to propose ways that these changes can be accommodated in a …