Problem solving skills, although an important goal of many introductory science courses, are not easily mastered by many students. The GOAL approach is easy to recall and encourages students to Gather information about...

This paper, presented at the 2002 Physics Education Research Conference, summarizes a study that describes graduate and undergraduate students' views on learning and teaching physics. The results indicate that most...

This page, in the National Academy Press website, gives the table of contents of "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School." As one of the "openbooks" from this press, the site allows users to search the...

Tutorials in Introductory Physics are widely used and have proven to be effective in promoting student understanding for many students in introductory physics. Despite this, there are currently few research results that...

This paper, presented at the 2002 Physics Education Research Conference, discusses how Cognitive Science has influenced physics education research and introduces the 'radical' notion of distributed cognition, which...