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SRRI is a federation of researchers from various disciplines, departments, and backgrounds. We study multiple facets of teaching, learning, and thinking in science, mathematics, and engineering, at K-12 and university levels. More recently, we have been applying this research to the development of educational software tools and classroom activities and researching the effects of instructional interventions on student reasoning. → learn more…

Latest News

Game Programmer Wanted
02/26/2013 - 3:22pm

We are looking for a Javascript/Actionscript Game Programmer (Departmental Assistant) to join our development team for short term, on-site work in our game lab at the Scientific Reasoning Research Institute (SRRI), UMass Amherst.

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Student Game Programmers Wanted
02/25/2013 - 12:00am

Student Game Programmers Wanted: We are putting together a small team of Javascript/Flash/Actionscript student programmers to further develop and polish several educational games for Mac/Windows/iPad.

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Data Games at Pioneer Valley
02/12/2013 - 10:49am

The Data Games project team headed to Pioneer Valley Regional School on February 12, 14 and 15 to observe students in an 8th grade classroom playing our game Chainsaw and then developing and critiquin

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Data Games in Action at Four Rivers
12/21/2012 - 12:39pm

The Data Games project team headed to Four Rivers Charter school in Greenfield, MA on December 17-20, 2012 to observe 8th grade classrooms implementing games and activities we're in the process of designed.

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TinkerPlots 2.1 Released
12/03/2012 - 11:43am

The new version of TinkerPlots (TinkerPlots 2.1) has been released.

Most importantly, we've made TinkerPlots 2.1 a lot more stable. We've fixed a large number of bugs, both major and minor.

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