This paper describes conceptual difficulties that may be experienced by engineering faculty as they become engineering education researchers. Observation, survey, and assessment data collected at the 2005 NSF-funded Rigorous Research in Engineering Education workshop were systematically analyzed to uncover the five difficulties encountered by engineering faculty learning to design rigorous educ...

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Revised and expanded version of a paper read at a joint session of the Division of Experimental Psychology and the Society for Projective Techniques, seventy-fourth annual convention of the American Psychological Association at New York City, September 6, 1966 (see American Psychologist, 21 (1966), 701). The present version is appearing as part of a symposium in Psychological Iss...

About 10%-20% of students in Australian schools experience ongoing literacy problems. Many students exhibit average intelligence and ongoing reading and comprehension difficulties after year four. Their reading problems are not linked to factors such as sensory acuity deficits or socioeconomic disadvantage. Recent research suggests that many of these problems may be related to language difficul...

Mona El-Sheikh and her colleagues have assembled an impressive series of studies for this monograph. To date, researchers interested in the consequences of marital conflict on children have focused primarily on the main effects of psychological variables. Although these studies have been invaluable in helping us to better understand risk and resiliency factors associated with children’s exposur...

Learning difficulties in reading and arithmetic are among the most commonly noted in school-age learners, with around 5% seriously affected in each skill. Reading appears to involve a brain network that has little overlap with that for basic number processing, and the candidate genes for reading disability seem to be quite different from those for dyscalculia. Nevertheless, there is evidence th...