Learning to Solve Complex Scientific Problems

Learning to Solve Complex Scientific Problems is an immensely useful read offering the insights of cognitive scientists and engineering and science educators who explain methods for helping students solve the complexities of everyday, scientific problems. Important features of this volume include discussions on:

• how problems are represented and how perception, attention, memory, and various forms of reasoning impact the management of information and search for solutions;
• how academics have applied lessons from cognitive science to better prepare students to solve problems;
• gender issues in science and engineering classrooms; and
• questions to guide future problem-solving research.