Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

Over the past decade, design experimentation has become an increasingly accepted mode
of research appropriate for the theoretical and empirical study of learning amidst complex …

| R: for more than a century, educational reformers have reminded us that students enter and
leave school with a very limited notion of what the disciplines they study are actually about …

Instructional scaffolding can be defined as support provided by a teacher/parent, peer, or a
computer-or a paper-based tool that allows students to meaningfully participate in and gain …

Co-Published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group and the Association of Teacher
Educators. The Handbook of Research on Teacher Education was initiated to ferment …

In this paper we develop an analytical framework we refer to as “Becoming an Engineer” that
focuses upon changes occurring over time as students traverse their undergraduate …

Edited by a diverse group of expert collaborators, the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations
of Learning is a landmark volume that brings together cutting-edge research examining …

Our goal is to provide an overview of important aspects of human learning that are
particularly relevant to educators. Doing so represents an exciting but difficult challenge …

How do people learn in subject areas, such as reading, writing, mathematics, science, and
history, and how can we help people learn, using instructional methods such as feedback …

This study explored the extent to which an 18‐day history and writing curriculum
intervention, taught over the course of one year, helped culturally and academically diverse …