"It's Harder Than We Thought It Would Be": A Comparative Case Study of Expert-Novice Experimentation Strategies

Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Anandi Nagarajan; Roger S. Day

Science Education Vol. 86, No. 2 (2002) pp. 219–43

Compares a group of expert cancer researchers with four groups of fourth year medical students (the "novice" groups) engaged in the task of designing a clinical trial to test a new cancer drug using a computer-based modeling tool, the Oncology...