Steve Schwartz
Research
My main area of research has focused on the relationships between how individuals represent information and their problem solving strategies in arious relms. Among the areas we have investigated are: medical diagnosis, programing, mathematics, science, and a variety of puzzle-like problems. Other areas of research interest are creative thinking, and the development of expertise.
Teaching
Undergraduate
Cognitive Psychology, Learning, Research Methods, Statistics, Senior Honors Seminar, Metacognition.
Graduate
Cognitive Psychology, Metacognition, Creative Thinking, Seminar in Problem Solving, Statistics, Research Methods.
Selected Publications
Schwartz, S.H. & Perkins, D.N. Teaching the Metacurriculum : A new Approach to Enhancing Subject Learning, in D.N. Perkins, J.L.
Schwartz, M.M.West & M.S. Wiske (Eds.) Software Goes to School Teaching for Understanding in the Age of Technology, Oxford University Press, New York, 1996.
Schwartz, S. H. A Program in General Heuristics for Problem Solving, in Proceedings of the 2nd Annual Conference on Problem Solving across the Curriculum, Institute for Innovations in Instruction. 1993.
Schwartz, S. H. & Simon, R. I. Information processing and decision making in medical diagnosis. In Health Research and the Systems Approach. H. Werley (Ed.) Springer Publishing Co. pp. 225-248. 1976
Schwartz, S. H. Modes of representation and problem solving: well evolved is half solved. J. Exp. Psychol. V. 91, 347-350, 1971
Phone: 617-287-6353
Fax: 617-287-6336
Email: steve.schwartz@umb.edu