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The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This essay describes the problems that can develop while working with multiple hypotheses and presents ideas for solving these problems. Topics discussed include premature theory development, the ...Subject: Education
Teaching to Higher Levels of Thinking: Harnessing the Affective Domain part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site from Idaho State University describes taxonomies of the cognitive domain, research on thinking models, and taxonomies of the affective domain. The site explains how appealing to the ...Subject: Education
A Fractal Thinker Looks at Learning, Observing and Assessment part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This site describes a way to reorganize available information on materials, processes and rates to make teaching part of a more understandable system interrelated in space and time. Fractals may ...Subject: Education
Learning to Think Mathematically: Problem Solving, Metacognition, and Sense-Making in Mathematics part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This 102-page PDF file addresses mathematical thinking. The goals of this publication are to outline and substantiate a broad conceptualization of what it means to think mathematically, to summarize ...Subject: Education
Exploring the Environment Teacher Pages: Problem-Based Learning part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This subsite of Exploring the Environment Teacher Pages provides a detailed description of problem-based learning as well as advice on how to teach using problem-based learning. The page highlights ...Subject: Education
Motivating Students part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This chapter from the book Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis is a great place to start for ideas and tips about increasing student motivation in your classes. The author presents a handy ...Subject: Education
Motivation: A General Overview of Theories part of SERC Web Resource Collection
This chapter in an e-book provides a brief summary of motivational theories that is written for educators. Topics include goals, self-efficacy, attribution theory, self-regulation and volition, and ...Subject: Education
Metacognition: An Overview part of SERC Web Resource Collection
The author reviews metacognition, metacognitive knowledge, metacognitive regulation, the distinction between cognitive and metacognitive strategies, the relationship between metacognition and ...Subject: Education
Scientific Argumentation in Earth System Science Education part of SERC Web Resource Collection
We investigate the merit of including deliberate instruction on argumentation and debate in an undergraduate Earth system science course. We examine sample student evaluations of arguments ...Subject: Education, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School part of SERC Print Resource Collection
This summary of educational research stresses that students of all ages 1) come to school with preconceptions about the subjects they are learning that, if not engaged, will interfere with learning, ...
