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Toward a New Science of Instruction: Programmatic Investigations in Cognitive Science and Education

August 1993

Table of Contents

• Cover Page
• Foreword
• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Thinking Through Mathematics

  Concerns of Research: Connections Between Learning and Understanding in Arithmetic

  What Makes Counting Easy, Subtraction Hard?

  What Do Children Know About Numbers? What Do They Need To Be Taught?

  Teaching--A Complex Set of Tasks

• Collaborative Projects Foster Teacher Professionalism

  Thinking Mathematics Project

  St. Agnes School Project

• Thinking Through Language

  Concerns of Research: Connections Among Knowledge, Reasoning, and Uses of Language

  What Does It Mean to Learn From Texts?

  Reading, Comprehension, and Self-Explanation

  Reading As Reasoning

  Argument, Inference, and Learning

  Argument and Changes in Thinking

• Thinking Through Experimentation

  Concerns of Research: Connections Between Subject Matter and Scientific Discovery

  How Learning Proceeds in Three Computer Laboratories

  Intelligent Tutoring System Enriches Microworlds

• Continuing Investigations

  Current Research Projects

  The Growing Connection Between Research and Practice

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