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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The following text was prepared for the Begle Memorial Series on Research in Mathematics Education of the IV ICME Congress at Berkeley in August 1980. Several sessions of this series were devoted to ...