(Link) The use of simulations in educational environments is a topic of growing interest, particularly in science education. While much research has been done to understand simulation use in interview ...

In science and engineering education, the use of heuristics has been introduced as a way of understanding the world, and as a way to approach problem-solving and design. However, important ...

Citations: Galinsky, Adam, Gordon Moskowitz. 2000. Counterfactuals as Behavioral Primes: Priming the Simulation Heuristic and the Consideration of Alternatives. Journal of Experimental Social ...

About 40 years ago Danny Kahneman and Amos Tversky made some wonderful discoveries. They identified a set of heuristics that people use — availability, representativeness, anchoring and adjustment, ...