In a recent blog post, Kyle Pearce (@mathletepearce) raised the question “good at math or good at memorization?” Unlike most middle school math teachers, Kyle asks his students to wrestle with complex ...

Laurels are nothing upon which to rest. John Noell Moore, associate professor of education, knows that to be the case even as he continues to earn teaching honors. Last year, the Alumni Association ...

Behaviorism was born from research done by Ivan Pavlov in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Pavlov’s research into animal digestion led to the recognition that the animals that were being ...

Historically, the study of cognition has focused mainly on adults. With the arrival of constructivist theoreticians such as Jean Piaget, cognitive developmental theory became more visible in ...

As an educational psychologist and educator for the past 20 years, I’ve come to appreciate the claims of constructivism more and more. In particular, I’m a firm believer that students learn by doing ...

Most people would agree that schools have dual responsibility: to make people smart and make them good. If the teachers accept the second function, they are grappling with an axiological issue. In ...