New Insights on Teaching and Evaluating Scientific Problem-solving
By studying how many expert scientists and engineers solve problems, we have a recently developed a much better understanding of the problem-solving process, and how to measure and teach expert problem solving in science.
About the Speaker
Carl Wieman is a Professor of Physics and Education at Stanford University. Wieman has done extensive experimental research in both atomic physics (Nobel Prize in physics 2001) and university science and engineering education (Carnegie Foundation Professor of the Year 2004). He founded PhET, which
provides online interactive simulations that are used 100 million times/year to learn science and recently published a book “Improving how universities teach science”. He is currently studying expertise and
problem solving in science and engineering disciplines, and how this can be better measured and taught.
