Cindy Hmelo-Silver

Challenges in Learning about Complex Systems part of Complex Systems:Workshop 2010:Participant Essays
This participant essay page from a 2010 NAGT workshop details Cindy Hmelo-Silver's research on challenges in learning about complex systems, emphasizing expert-novice differences in understanding biological and ecological systems through structure-behavior-function (SBF) representation, and explores instructional strategies using hypermedia and dynamic modeling to improve comprehension of system dynamics.

Aquarium Ecosystem Assessment part of Complex Systems:Assessments
This assesses students knowledge of aquarium ecosystems. It has been used largely with middle school science.