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Applying Cognitive Science to Education
Thinking and Learning in Scientific and Other Complex Domains by Frederick Reif
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 489 pp. $38, £24.95. ISBN 9780262182638.
Reif discusses how findings from cognitive science can help improve teaching and learning, especially science education (and, within that, physics education).
The reviewer is at the ETH Zürich Institute for Behavioral Sciences, Universitätsstrasse 6, CH-8092 Zürich, Switzerland. E-mail: stern{at}ifv.gess.ethz.ch
