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How can laboratory research in cognitive and developmental psychology contribute to science education.(and vice versa)?

 
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Research Questions:

  • Psychological: can elementary school kids understand the logic and procedures underlying the control of variables strategy (CVS)?
  • Educational: can children be taught how to design unconfounded experiments?
  • Instructional: how does direct instruction compare with discovery learning in this domain?