Education & learning publications

Global learning and observations to benefit the environment (GLOBE) is an international environmental science and education program involving elementary and secondary school students in the collection of data concerning their…

This paper traces a progression of four computer-based methods for studying and fostering both the structure and the on-line development of knowledge. Each empirical technique employs ECHO, a connectionist model…

Educators often focus on the ideas that they want their audience to have. But research has shown that a learner’s prior knowledge often confounds an educator’s best efforts to deliver…

Discusses girls' use of computers and examines why they are often discouraged and lose interest.

In this project, we devised an on-line network of Pascal programming templates called a template library, and tested it with subjects (classified as novice, intermediate, and expert Pascal programmers) both…