Despite several decades of research on more effectively communicating climate change to
the general public, there is only a limited amount of knowledge about how young people …

The construct of active learning permeates undergraduate education in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but despite its prevalence, the construct means …

An unwillingness to consider empirical evidence that contradicts one's desired conclusion,
or science denial, is an enormous barrier to producing an informed citizenry. This essay …

El cambio climático constituye el desafío más importante de la humanidad para el presente
siglo. Se trata de un complejo fenómeno resultante del proceso civilizatorio en boga que …

When individuals have questions about scientific issues, they often search the Internet.
Evaluating sources of information and claims they find has become more difficult in the post …

Science is of critical importance to daily life in a knowledge society and has a significant
influence on many everyday decisions. As scientific problems increase in their number and …

Of this article's seven experiments, the first five demonstrate that virtually no Americans know
the basic global warming mechanism. Fortunately, Experiments 2–5 found that 2–45 min of …

We investigated whether problem-based learning (PBL) can foster conceptual change.
Students were randomly assigned to a PBL, lecture-based, or self-study group, all receiving …

This article presents and evaluates a model made for climate change education–the bicycle
model. The model was created based on an extensive literature review, from which …

What is knowledge? How do we know what we know? What influence might this set of
beliefs have on how we think, reason, and learn? To offer a simple example, when I was …