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Contents: Preface. Part I: Fundamentals of Science Thinking.H.A. Simon, "Seek and Ye Shall Find": How Curiosity Engenders Discovery. M.A. Callanan, J.L. Jipson, Explanatory Conversations and Young Children's Developing Scientific Literacy. M. Azmitia, K. Crowley, The Rhythms of Scientific Thinking: A Study of Collaboration in an Earthquake Microworld. C. Schunn, J. Anderson, Acquiring Expertise in Science: Explorations of What, When, and How. K. Dunbar, What Scientific Thinking Reveals About the Nature of Cognition. R. Tweney, Scientific Thinking: A Cognitive-Historical Approach. Part II: Building for Scientific Thinking.D.E. Penner, Complexity, Emergence, and Synthetic Models in Science Education. D. Klahr, Z. Chen, E. Toth, From Cognition to Instruction to Cognition: A Case Study in Elementary School Science Instruction. R. Lehrer, L. Schauble, A. Petrosino, Reconsidering the Role of Experiment in Science Education. B. Loh, B.J. Reiser, J. Radinsky, D.C. Edelson, L.M. Gomez, S. Marshall, Developing Reflective Inquiry Practices: A Case Study of Software, Teacher, and Students. J. Shrager, High Throughput Discovery: Search and Interpretation on the Path to New Drugs. Part III: Evaluating Scientific Thinking.C.A. Chinn, B.A. Malhotra, Epistemologically Authentic Scientific Reasoning. K. Crowley, J. Galco, Everyday Activity and the Development of Scientific Thinking. J. Minstrell, Facets of Students' Thinking: Designing to Cross the Gap From Research to Standards-Based Practice. T. Okada, T. Shimokido, The Role of Hypothesis Formation in Psychological Research. P. Thagard, Internet Epistemology: Contributions of New Information Technologies to Scientific Research.

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