(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Kai R. Larsen, University of Colorado Boulder; Roman Lukyanenko, University of ...

Concept Inventories are written to assess undergraduate student understanding of “big picture” ideas in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. However, the inferences about learning that student ...

This article considers what might be taught to meet a widely held curriculum aim of students being able to understand research in a discipline. Expertise, which may appear as a 'chain of practice', is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Borrowing from the language of science, this question is really about validity – that ...