College Teaching and the Development of Reasoning

This book is intended to offer college faculty members the insights of the development of reasoning movement that enlighten physics educators in the late 1970s

Robert Karplus, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, became a leader in the movement to reform elementary school science in th

These first-person accounts demonstrate how students, including nonscience majors, can learn to do science as it is done in the real world—through hypothesis

A goal of mine ever since becoming an educational researcher has been to help construct a sound theory to guide instructional practice. For far too long, educat

The importance of critical thinking has surged as academics in higher education realize that many students, upon entering college, lack the critical thinking sk

Although Lawrence Kohlberg provided major ideas for psychological research in morality for decades, today some critics regard his work as outmoded, beyond repai