Theory and Applications

Edited by Jacqueline Leighton, Mark Gierl

With the current push toward educational reform, there is great potential for innovation and change, particularly in large scale testing. ...

Experimental, Developmental, and Computational Approaches

Edited by Aidan Feeney, Evan Heit

Without inductive reasoning, we couldn't generalize from one instance to another, derive scientific hypotheses, or predict that the sun will ...

Howard Wainer, Eric T. Bradlow, Xiaohui Wang

As the inferences that are drawn from test scores have become more specific, tests and their scoring theories have evolved ...

Behavioural, Social and Communicative Dimensions

Edited by Chrystopher L. Nehaniv, Kerstin Dautenhahn

Mechanisms of imitation and social matching behaviour play fundamental roles in development, communication, social interaction, learning and culture. Researchers from ...

From Individual to Social Cognition

Zhanna Reznikova

The lives of animals are filled with challenges that demand on-the-spot decisions. Animal Intelligence presents a unified approach to studying ...

Edited by Kurt W. Fischer, Jane Holmes Bernstein, Mary Helen Immordino-Yang

One of the key topics for establishing meaningful links between brain sciences and education is the development of reading. ...

Essays on Mechanisms, Interfield Relations, and Anomaly Resolution

Lindley Darden

Reasoning in Biological Discoveries brings together a series of essays written and co-written by Lindley Darden which focus on one ...