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David Perkins is a founding member of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education investigating human symbolic capacities and their development. For many years, he served as co-director, and is now senior co-director and a member of the steering committee. Perkins conducts research on creativity in the arts and sciences, informal reasoning, problem solving, understanding, individual and organizational learning, and the teaching of thinking skills. He has participated in curriculum projects addressing thinking, understanding, and learning in Colombia, Israel, Venezuela, South Africa, Sweden, Holland, Australia, and the United States. He is actively involved in school change. Perkins was one of t ...more

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	Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 275 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Intelligent Eye: Learning to Think by Looking at Art (Occasional Paper Series) 3.91 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eureka Effect: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking 3.59 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archimedes' Bathtub: The Art and Logic of Breakthrough Thinking by David N. Perkins, David Perkins 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 2000 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smart Schools really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1992 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	King Arthur's Round Table : How Collaborative Conversations Create Smart Organizations 3.92 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outsmarting IQ: The Emerging Science of Learnable Intelligence 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mind's Best Work 3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1981 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Knowledge As Design 4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1986 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Las Obras de La Mente (Psicologia, Psiquiatria y Psicoanalisis) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Learning often means changing the game board, not just learning fancier strategies on the same board with the same pieces.”
― David N. Perkins, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

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“One never knows when one is going to get ambushed into learning something.”
― David N. Perkins, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

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“Assessment in this spirit does not concern assignment of grades or evaluation of whether instruction was effective. It's assessment designed squarely to feed into the learning process and make the learning stronger.”
― David N. Perkins, Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education

tags: assessments, learning

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