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

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What works, AND what doesn’t work, AND what doesn’t seem to matter one way or the other

Important to focus on success
Equally important to focus on “failure”
Scientific discovery is a type of problem solving (Klahr, 2000)
- Requires “search”
  - For hypotheses
  - For experiments
  - For evaluation of experimental outcomes
- As in any problem solving: failures are informative, not useless!