Design and Reflection Help Students Develop Scientific Abilities: Learning in Introductory Physics Laboratories

Eugenia Etkina; Anna Karelina; Maria Ruibal-Villasenor; David Rosengrant; Rebecca Jordan; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver

Journal of the Learning Sciences Vol. 19, No. 1 (2010) pp. 54–98

Design activities, when embedded in an inquiry cycle and appropriately scaffolded and supplemented with reflection, can promote the development of the habits of mind (scientific abilities) that are an important part of scientific practice. Through...