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GSE Profiles
Staff Contact:
Kathleen E. Metz
Associate Professor
Cognition and Development
Office: 4313 Tolman
Phone: 510-642-7977
Email: kmetz@berkeley.edu
Website:
Office: 4316 Tolman
Phone: 510-642-7977
Email:
Kathleen E. Metz is interested in young children’s scientific reasoning, from both developmental and instructional viewpoints. She is also interested in children's intuitions about rudimentary statistical constructs that are involved in data-based inquiry. She was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Cognitive Science at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of Bärbel Inhelder's research team at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. She is currently principal investigator of two NSF projects that are looking into the power and limitations of young children's scientific inquiry. By designing instruction as optimal as she and her collaborators can engineer, she is finding that children can successfully engage in forms of scientific inquiry much more robust and authentic than that reflected in either contemporary curriculum or curriculum policy recommendations.Representative articles include:
- Metz, K. E. (in press). Narrowing the gulf between the practices of science and the elementary school science classroom. Elementary School Journal.
- Metz, K.E. (2007). Ann Brown's legacy: The synergistic advancement of cognitive developmental, learning and instructional theories. In J. C. Campione, K E. Metz, & A.S. Palincsar, [Eds.] Children's learning in laboratory and classroom contexts: Essays in honor of Ann Brown. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Metz, K.E. (2004). Children's understanding of scientific inquiry: Their conceptualization of uncertainty in investigations of their own design. Cognition and Instruction, vol 22 (2), 219-290.
- Metz, K. E. (2004). Knowledge-building enterprises in science and Elementary School Classrooms: Analysis of Problematic Differences and strategic leverage points, In L.B. Flick et al. [Eds] Scientific Inquiry and the Nature of Science.
- BS, Earlham College: Psychology
- MS, University of Pennsylvania: Education
- Ed.D., University of Massachusetts; Human Development,Teacher Education
- Postdoctoral study: Carnegie Mellon: Cognitive Science
- Postdoctoral study: University of Geneva (Switzerland): Cognitive Development
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Instruction and Development
Problem Solving and Understanding in the Elementary School
Children's Scientific Cognitiion: Development, Learning and Instruction
Qualititive Methods
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Cognitive Development
Curriculum Development
Development of Professional Learning Communities
Learning
Reform Issues
Science Education
Teacher Development
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