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Citations
16181
World Ranking
5558
National Ranking
3033

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

David Klahr is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Arts and Humanities, with specific attention to Visual Arts and Performing Arts, History, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

The scientist's work centers on topics related to Visual Culture and Art Theory, Photography and Visual Culture, and Advanced Vision and Imaging.

Recent publications by David Klahr include:

  • "Palace versus City: Wilhelm II's Terrace Project, 1892-1901," published in 2021 in German History
  • "Shifting scenes of colouration and illumination: the narrative and temporal fluidities of tissue paper stereoviews," published in 2022 in Early Popular Visual Culture

The publication venues where they have contributed include:

  • German History
  • Early Popular Visual Culture

David Klahr has not listed frequent co-authors in the given data.

The scientist was recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, 2008
  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 2001

Best Publications

  • Dual space search during scientific reasoning

    David Klahr;Kevin Dunbar

  • The Equivalence of Learning Paths in Early Science Instruction Effects of Direct Instruction and Discovery Learning

    David Klahr;Milena Nigam

  • All Other Things Being Equal: Acquisition and Transfer of the Control of Variables Strategy

    Zhe Chen;David Klahr

  • Exploring Science: The Cognition and Development of Discovery Processes

    David Klahr

  • Cognitive development: An information-processing view

    David Klahr;John Gilbert Wallace

  • Formal assessment of problem-solving and planning processes in preschool children☆

    David Klahr;Mitchell Robinson

  • Heuristics for scientific experimentation: a developmental study.

    David Klahr;Anne L. Fay;Kevin Dunbar

  • Hands on What? The Relative Effectiveness of Physical versus Virtual Materials in an Engineering Design Project by Middle School Children

    David Klahr;Lara M. Triona;Cameron Williams

  • Studies of Scientific Discovery: Complementary Approaches and Convergent Findings

    David Klahr;Herbert A. Simon

  • Children's Scientific Curiosity: In Search of an Operational Definition of an Elusive Concept.

    Jamie Jirout;David Klahr

  • Production System Models of Learning and Development

    David Klahr;Pat Langley;Robert Neches

  • Span and rate of apprehension in children and adults.

    Michelene T.H Chi;David Klahr

  • Guided Play Principles and Practices

    Deena Skolnick Weisberg;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Kathy Hirsh-Pasek;Roberta Michnick Golinkoff;Audrey K. Kittredge

  • Cognitive objectives in a LOGO debugging curriculum: Instruction, learning, and transfer ☆

    David Klahr;Sharon McCoy Carver

  • Point and Click or Grab and Heft: Comparing the Influence of Physical and Virtual Instructional Materials on Elementary School Students' Ability to Design Experiments

    Lara M. Triona;David Klahr

  • Scientific Thinking and Reasoning

    Kevin N. Dunbar;David Klahr

  • Cognition and Instruction : Twenty-five Years of Progress

    Sharon M. Carver;David Klahr

  • A monte carlo investigation of the statistical significance of Kruskal's nonmetric scaling procedure

    David Klahr

  • Developmental Differences in Scientific Discovery Processes

    Kevin Dunbar;David Klahr

  • Complex Information Processing: The Impact of Herbert A. Simon

    David Klahr;K. Kotovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin Dunbar
Kevin Dunbar University of Maryland, College Park
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Temple University
Christian D. Schunn
Christian D. Schunn University of Pittsburgh
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff University of Delaware
James G. Greeno
James G. Greeno University of Pittsburgh
Shana K. Carpenter
Shana K. Carpenter Oregon State University
Kelly S. Mix
Kelly S. Mix University of Maryland, College Park
Nalini Ambady
Nalini Ambady Stanford University
Michelene T. H. Chi
Michelene T. H. Chi Arizona State University
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine

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