A couple of years ago, five faculty members at Harvard University published an intriguing study. They had run an experiment in an introductory undergraduate physics course to figure out why active ...

In science, a variable is something that can be changed, measured or controlled in an experiment. Scientists look at variables to understand how they affect things. A variable is any one of the things ...

There’s an old Roman insult that goes like this: “He can’t read or swim.” The presumption is that just about anyone who applied himself (or herself) could learn these skills. Indeed, many countries ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The purpose of this paper is to show how latent variable growth modeling can be utilized to examine change in students' attitudes toward ...

Re: “Children can’t stride into the future in a 19th-century education system” [March 5, Opinion]: I have been a high school teacher for more than 50 years, the last eight as a volunteer teaching ...