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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…

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Cliff gives a presentation at the NCSM 44th Annual conference
04/23/2012 - 9:46am

Dr. Cliff Konold is giving a presentation on "What students, teachers and administrators need to understand about data" on April 23, 2012 at the NCSM 44th Annual Conference.

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Related Paper Set at NARST
03/20/2012 - 12:29pm

Four members of CLSG presented a related paper set at the Annual International Meeting of NARST in Orlando Florida. The title of the set was Discussion-Based Teaching Strategies to Support Mental Modeling: Animated Images, Static Images, and Mental Imaging. Presenters were Grant Williams, Norm Price, Abi Leibovich, and Lynn Stephens and Phil Scott was discussant.

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New Book Chapter in International Handbook, March 2012
03/20/2012 - 12:14pm

A. Lynn Stephens and John J. Clement are proud to announce the publication of a chapter in the Second International Handbook of Science Education (Springer), Chapter 13: The role of thought experiments in science and science learning.

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Assessing-to-Learn (A2L) website moving to UNC
03/15/2012 - 11:35am

The Assessing-to-Learn website (A2L.physics.umass.edu) is moving to a new server (clickercentral.net), contact Ian Beat

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Data Visualization: Learning to see the invisible
02/06/2012 - 10:27am

"Data Visualization: Learning to see the invisible" , a presentation by Dr. Cliff Konold at the 2012 Cyberlearning Research Summit is now available to view online

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