As problems become increasingly complex, science educators need to better understand how new knowledge is constructed and applied in heterogeneous team collaborations, and how to teach students to productively engage in these processes. We discuss the emergence of insights in collaborative sensemaking and suggest a model that articulates the…

This paper explores how models can support productive thinking. For us a model is a "thing", a tool to help make sense of something. We restrict attention to specific models for whole-number multiplication, hence the wording of the title. They support evolving thinking in large measure through the ways their users redesign them. They assume new…

In this article we report on the results of an innovative research partnership with the largest school district in one Canadian province where we are exploring how educational leadership practices and the factors that influence these practices interact to impact student learning. This article makes a clear connection between leadership and student…

The basic premise of this paper is the fact that science has become a major industry: the knowledge industry. The paper throws some light on the reasons for the transformation of science from a limited, constrained and marginal craft into a major industry. It, then, presents a productivist industrial model of knowledge production, which shows its…

The present study observed problem-solving styles with anagrams to see whether observing a model solve anagrams in a rigid or flexible way would affect the types of solutions the subjects used. (Author)

Outlines two models of the curriculum based on assumptions about the mind, intelligence, and thought; and examines the concept of "thinking." (Author/PG)

An attempt to lend empirical support to the structure-of-intellect (SI) model by investigating 10 difficult to separate parallel factors. (Author/CK)

The role played by methodology and the routes'' it takes in planning a design. (Editor)

Examines three problem-solving models that have applications for the elementary school classroom. All are easily understandable, practical, pedagogical, and will improve children's thinking. Models are the Universal Traveler, Philosophy for Children, and the Decide Model. (Author/AV)

Salaries of academic economists are determined as part of an interdependent system. The differences that result from employing a multi-equation system rather than the single-equation model used in previous research are presented to demonstrate variations in earnings of academic economists. (JMF)

This paper provides a concise statement of the current technology of quantitative analysis as applied to university decisionmaking. The author argues that quantitative decision analysis can be particularly relevant in situations involving stress, uncertainty, large amounts of resources, and institutional survival. The process of decision analysis…

Discusses general ways to approach and solve engineering problems. Uses the phase plane and perturbation methods to illustrate the qualitative study of equations. (MLH)

A questionnaire for focusing college student attention upon the subtleties implicit in a three-dimensional model of creativity is presented. (BD)

The authors present a model to teach about conflict, classification of levels of conflict, interpretation of meanings, evaluation of consequences, and making of inferences about what could happen if everyone practiced cooperation, coalescence, and shared decision making. (Author/AV)