Benchmarks for Science Literacy: Chapter 15 THE RESEARCH BASE

12 HABITS OF MIND

The research on Habits of Mind has focused on the development of students' Computation and Estimation skills and Critical-Response skills. There is a rich and growing literature on the development of basic arithmetic skills, on the development of estimation skills, and on students' ability to solve problems that involve proportional reasoning. The development of skills for interpreting evidence has also received considerable research attention.