Describes a study designed to provide insight into the strengths and limitations of using groupwork to promote excellence and equity in science education. Argues that students need more guidance in how to talk and do science. Contains 40 references. (DDR)

Points out that college freshmen expect major changes in the academic environment as they move from secondary school. Recommends that faculty use this opportunity to show students how to think for themselves. (DDR)

Knowledge production and learning in engineering is a local, situated, negotiated, and thoroughly social process. Although engineering work entails the construal, production, and application of artifacts and technical devices belonging to the "object world," the process of designing is a process of achieving consensus among real or…