David Klahr
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David Klahr's Degrees
- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, David Klahr is an American psychologist whose research ranges across the fields of cognitive development, psychology of science, and educational psychology and has been a professor at Carnegie Mellon University since 1969. He is the Walter van Dyke Bingham Professor of Cognitive Development and Education Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the National Academy of Education, a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Charter Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, on the Governing Board of the Cognitive Development Society, a member of the Society for Research in Child Development, and the Cognitive Science Society. He was an associate editor of Developmental Psychology and has served on the editorial boards of several cognitive science journals, as well as on the National Science Foundation's subcommittee on Memory and Cognitive Processes, and the National Institutes of Health's Human Development and Aging Study Section.
David Klahr's Published Works
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Published Works
- Dual Space Search During Scientific Reasoning (1988) (1122)
- The Equivalence of Learning Paths in Early Science Instruction (2004) (982)
- All other things being equal: acquisition and transfer of the control of variables strategy. (1999) (724)
- Heuristics for Scientific Experimentation: A Developmental Study (1993) (399)
- Production system models of learning and development (1987) (379)
- Complex Information Processing: The Impact of Herbert A. Simon (1989) (365)
- Hands on What? The Relative Effectiveness of Physical versus Virtual Materials in an Engineering Design Project by Middle School Children (2007) (331)
- Studies of Scientific Discovery: Complementary Approaches and Convergent Findings (1999) (321)
- Cognitive development: An information-processing view (1976) (292)
- Formal assessment of problem-solving and planning processes in preschool children (1981) (275)
- Point and Click or Grab and Heft: Comparing the Influence of Physical and Virtual Instructional Materials on Elementary School Students' Ability to Design Experiments (2003) (255)
- Span and rate of apprehension in children and adults. (1975) (234)
- Cognitive objectives in a LOGO debugging curriculum: Instruction, learning, and transfer (1988) (232)
- Children's Scientific Curiosity: In Search of an Operational Definition of an Elusive Concept. (2012) (227)
- Exploring Science: The Cognition and Development of Discovery Processes (2000) (209)
- A monte carlo investigation of the statistical significance of Kruskal's nonmetric scaling procedure (1969) (177)
- Scientific Thinking and Reasoning (2012) (168)
- Instructional Complexity and the Science to Constrain It (2013) (155)
- Guided Play (2016) (148)
- Bridging Research and Practice: A Cognitively Based Classroom Intervention for Teaching Experimentation Skills to Elementary School Children (2000) (129)
- The role of quantification operators in the development of conservation of quantity (1973) (127)
- Cognition and Instruction : Twenty-five Years of Progress (2013) (127)
- The representation of children's knowledge. (1978) (121)
- The interaction of domain-specific knowledge and domain-general discovery strategies: a study with sinking objects. (1996) (114)
- Educational Interventions to Advance Children’s Scientific Thinking (2011) (112)
- Developing elementary science skills: Instructional effectiveness and path independence (2008) (111)
- Cognitive Research and Elementary Science Instruction: From the Laboratory, to the Classroom, and Back (2005) (103)
- Developmental Differences in Scientific Discovery Processes (1988) (103)
- Error Matters: An Initial Exploration of Elementary School Children's Understanding of Experimental Error (2003) (99)
- Knowing about guessing and guessing about knowing: preschoolers' understanding of indeterminacy. (1996) (98)
- Psychology's role in mathematics and science education. (2009) (92)
- Structure and process in alphabetic retrieval. (1983) (89)
- Solving inductive reasoning problems in mathematics: not-so-trivial pursuit (2000) (87)
- Sequential effects of high and low instructional guidance on children’s acquisition of experimentation skills: Is it all in the timing? (2013) (85)
- Instructionless Learning about a Complex Device: The Paradigm and Observations (1986) (76)
- A Computer Simulation of the Paradox of Voting (1966) (65)
- Designing Good Experiments to Test Bad Hypotheses (1989) (65)
- Learning, development, and production systems (1987) (65)
- Solving Problems with Ambiguous Subgoal Ordering: Preschoolers' Performance. (1985) (61)
- Information Processing Approaches to Cognitive Development (1988) (61)
- Overcoming the positive-capture strategy in young children: learning about indeterminacy. (2003) (60)
- “ To Every Thing There is a Season, and a Time to Every Purpose Under the Heavens” What about Direct Instruction? (2009) (57)
- Guided Play: Principles and Practices (2016) (56)
- A 4-Space Model of Scientific Discovery (1995) (54)
- A PRODUCTION SYSTEM FOR COUNTING, SUBITIZING AND ADDING (1973) (54)
- Assessing Children's Logo Debugging Skills with a Formal Model (1986) (51)
- Remote transfer of scientific-reasoning and problem-solving strategies in children. (2008) (50)
- Finding One’s Place in Transfer Space (2011) (47)
- An information processing analysis of some piagetian experimental tasks (1970) (46)
- Making play work for education (2015) (44)
- Decision Making in a Complex Environment: The use of Similarity Judgements to Predict Preferences (1969) (43)
- What Have Psychologists (And Others) Discovered About the Process of Scientific Discovery? (2001) (38)
- When to trust the data: Further investigations of system error in a scientific reasoning task (1996) (36)
- THE DEVELOPMENT OF SERIAL COMPLETION STRATEGIES: AN INFORMATION PROCESSING ANALYSIS (1970) (36)
- Invention Versus Direct Instruction: For Some Content, It’s a Tie (2017) (35)
- CLASS INCLUSION PROCESSES (1972) (34)
- Cognitive development and science education: ships that pass in the night or beacons of mutual illumination? (2001) (32)
- What Lies beneath the Science Achievement Gap: The Challenges of Aligning Science Instruction with Standards and Tests (2006) (30)
- The psychology of scientific discovery: Search in two problem Spaces (1988) (29)
- Insiders, outsiders, and efficiency in a National Science Foundation panel. (1985) (24)
- SCIENTIFIC THINKING ABOUT SCIENTIFIC THINKING (1995) (24)
- What do we mean? On the importance of not abandoning scientific rigor when talking about science education (2013) (23)
- Predictors of Transfer of Experimental Design Skills in Elementary and Middle School Children (2010) (22)
- The Psychology of Scientific Thinking: Implications for Science Teaching and Learning (2006) (22)
- Learning in an instructionless environment: Observation and analysis (1983) (21)
- Self-modifying production system model of cognitive development (1987) (21)
- Coming Up for Air: But Is It Oxygen or Phlogiston? A Response to Taber's Review of Constructivist Instruction: Success Or Failure? (2010) (20)
- Investigating the mechanisms of learning from a constrained preparation for future learning activity (2013) (20)
- Separating signal from noise: Children's understanding of error and variability in experimental outcomes (2007) (18)
- Pharmacologic treatment of delusions. (1995) (17)
- When do diagrams enhance learning? A framework for designing relevant representations (2008) (17)
- Effects of Direct Instruction and Discovery Learning (2004) (17)
- A Study of Consumers' Cognitive Structure for Cigarette Brands (1970) (17)
- Early Science Instruction (2005) (16)
- Detecting, Classifying, and Remediating (2012) (15)
- Data-Driven Belief Revision in Children and Adults (2017) (15)
- The problem of problem spaces: When and how to go beyond a 2-space model of scientific discovery (1996) (15)
- Hands-On Science: Does it Matter What Students’ Hands are on? (2007) (15)
- 3 – Nonmonotone Assessment of Monotone Development: An Information Processing Analysis1 (1982) (14)
- Point and Click or Build by Hand: Comparing the Effects of Physical vs. Virtual Materials on Middle School Students' Ability to Optimize an Engineering Design - eScholarship (2005) (14)
- Self vs. Other-Generated Hypotheses in Scientific Discovery. 1 (1993) (13)
- A New Framework for Understanding How Young Children Create External Representations for Puzzles and Problems (2007) (12)
- Evidence-Based Approaches to Improving Chemical Equilibrium Instruction (2014) (12)
- If robots make choices, are they alive?: Children's judgments of the animacy of intelligent artifacts (2000) (11)
- Development of conceptual understanding and problem solving expertise in chemistry (2008) (11)
- Development of Scientific Thinking (2018) (10)
- Virtual vs. Physical Materials in Early Science Instruction: Transitioning to an Autonomous Tutor for Experimental Design (2008) (9)
- Children's Question Asking and Curiosity: A Training Study. (2011) (9)
- COGNITION AND INSTRUCTION (1976) (9)
- Further explorations of a control process model of test anxiety (1987) (8)
- Scientific Thinking about Scientific Thinking. Commentary. (1995) (8)
- Effects of terminological concreteness on middle-school students’ learning of experimental design (2016) (7)
- A computational account of children's learning about number conservation (1991) (7)
- Comparison of a Computer-Based to Hands-On Lesson in Experimental Design (2010) (6)
- Learning Sciences Research and Pasteur’s Quadrant (2019) (6)
- Sequential effects of high and low guidance on children's early science learning (2010) (5)
- Conceptual Change When Learning Experimental Design (2013) (5)
- Multiple-Space Search in a more Complex Discovery Microworld (2000) (5)
- Questions – And Some Answers – About Young Children’s Questions (2020) (5)
- Improving Students’ Scientific Thinking (2019) (4)
- When the Rubber Meets the Road - Putting Research-based Methods to Test in Urban Classrooms (2006) (4)
- Commentary: new kids on the connectionist modeling block. (2004) (4)
- The Interplay of Domain-Specific and Domain-General Factors in Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation (2014) (4)
- Making Play Work for Education: Research Demonstrates That Guided Play Can Help Preschool Children Prepare for Reading and Math Better Than Free Play and Direct Instruction Alone (2015) (3)
- Sequential effects of high and low instructional guidance on children’s acquisition of experimentation skills: Is it all in the timing? (2012) (3)
- Inquiry Science Rocks: Or Does It? (2012) (3)
- Encounters with the Force of Herbert A. Simon (2004) (3)
- Beyond Piaget: a Perspective from Studies of Children’s Problem Solving Abilities (2012) (3)
- Coordinating Dual Search : The Role of Evidence (2000) (3)
- Patterns, Rules, & Discoveries in Life and in Science (2012) (2)
- Children’s developing ability to create external representations: Separating what information is included from how the information is represented (2019) (2)
- Cognitive deficits in affective disorders and schizophrenia. (1995) (2)
- Depicting Invisible Processes: The Influence of Molecular-Level Diagrams in Chemistry Instruction (2007) (2)
- The Effect of Scaffolded Causal Identification in the Transfer of Experimental Design Skills. (2011) (2)
- Explaining, but not discovering, abduction. (2002) (2)
- Plausible models of alphabetic search: Reply to Scharroo, Leeuwenberg, Stalmeier, and Vos (1994). (1994) (1)
- Investigation of Pre-School Children's Problem Solving Processes. Final Report. (1981) (1)
- Production Systems: Views on Intelligent Behavior (1999) (1)
- Children, Adults, and Machines as Discovery Systems (1994) (1)
- Looking Under a Different Lamppost. (1981) (1)
- Conference Proceedings from the Annual Carnegie Cognition Symposium (10th) Held at Vail, Colorado on June 2-8, 1974: Cognition and Instruction (1976) (1)
- Adapting an Effective Lesson Plan for a Computer-based Tutor (2009) (1)
- REPLY TO HAYES: ON THE VALUE OF THEORETICAL PRECISION (1972) (1)
- An Educational Assembly System For Student Executed Educational Design: Toward a System of Computer Constructed Education. (1974) (1)
- The relative effectiveness of different active learning implementations in teaching elementary school students how to design simple experiments. (2020) (1)
- Policy Blockin Blockin Forum Instructional Complexity and the Science Needed to Constrain It (1)
- Are There Developmental Milestones in Science Reasoning (1990) (1)
- Evolution of Scientific Thinking (2007) (1)
- Cognition and Instruction; Conference Proceedings from the Annual Carnegie Cognition Symposium (10th, Vail, Colorado, June 2-8, 1974). (1976) (0)
- The Probability of a Cyclical Majority Author ( s ) : (2011) (0)
- Invention Versus Direct Instruction: For Some Content, It’s a Tie (2017) (0)
- Biological Bases of Maternal Attachment (2001) (0)
- Searching the experiment space in a scientific reasoning task (1987) (0)
- 334 MALONE What makes things fun to learn ? (0)
- Directions to "Eureka!" [2] (multiple letters) (2001) (0)
- Investigating the mechanisms of learning from a constrained preparation for future learning activity (2012) (0)
- A Sears Catalog for the Developmental Psychologist. (1989) (0)
- Cognitive Science and Student Learning in the Classroom (2007) (0)
- Collaboration as a problem of cognitive science: Definitions and approaches (1996) (0)
- Learning to Solve Complex Propositions: Does knowledge of truth-values bootstrap modal operators? (2019) (0)
- Strategy choices in Siegler’s research (2017) (0)
- A framework for cognitive studies of scientific discovery (2000) (0)
- Impression Formation, Discrepancy from Stereotype, and Recognition Memory, Ray H ym a n (2014) (0)
- A Monte Carlo investigation of the statistical significance of multidimensional scaling (1968) (0)
- Rages over stages (1978) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW:The American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry Second Edition, Edited by E. W. Busse and D. G. Blazer, The American Psychiatric Press, 1996. No. of pages: 502. (1997) (0)
- ADAPTIVE PROGRAM EXPERIMENT I (APE-I) (1961) (0)
- Notes on a Theory of the Development of the Human Information Processing System. (1975) (0)
- Variations on a Scheme: What You Learn is What You Know. (1978) (0)
- Terms of Debate a Science Study's Author Responds to Critics My Account Log Out (0)
- Educational Research and Development Unit Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie-Mellon University. Third Annual Report. (1972) (0)
- A Design for an Educational Assembly System (1971) (0)
- Directions to "Eureka!" (2001) (0)
- The Consistency of Children's Responses to Logical Statements: Coordinating Components of Formal Reasoning (2001) (0)
- Strategies for hypothesis induction (1991) (0)
- The effect of prompted causal identification in transfer of experimental design skills (2011) (0)
- Generating Analogies to Stories: Investigating Young Children's Analogical Transfer (1992) (0)
- Chapter 7: Multiple Space Search in Scientific Discovery the Milk Truck Microworld (2012) (0)
- Understanding Complex Task Instructions, Herbert A. Simon and John R. Hayes (2014) (0)
- Children, adults, and machines as discovery systems (2004) (0)
- The Development of Logical Reasoning: Does Evidence Evaluation Underlie Modal Operators? (2013) (0)
- Stances : Production systems (2010) (0)
- Connecting Concepts with Procedures in Equilibrium Instruction: Evaluating the Majority and Minority (M&M) Strategy (2013) (0)
- Report on the Annual Carnegie Cognition Symposium (10th): Cognition and Instruction (1974) (0)
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