This is a project out of Arizona State University which looks into the effects of modeling on college students, focusing on introductory physics courses.
This link is to a speech given by one of the researchers, providing both an explanation of the project, and of the modeling method itself.
And most interesting project out of the Modeling program at ASU is the Cognitive Instruction in Mathematical Modeling, which states the "end result is that all of the notoriously difficult topics (fractions, negative numbers, place value, exponents, etc.) become trivial."
Anyone in the Education Seminar may recall the topic of modeling coming up a few times when we had guest teachers from Miami Dade Public Schools speaking with us.
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