Research on the training of higher cognitive learning and thinking skills. The project, led by Ray Nickerson, sought to

• determine what is known about the teaching of cognitive skills, drawing information both from the research literature and from the results of efforts to develop cognitive enhancement programs
• organize this information in a form useful to researchers, and to educators who may wish to implement a cognitive enhancement program,
• identify questions relating to the teaching of cognitive skills that require research,
• initiate research on those questions.

As part of the project, Ed Smith and I developed a taxonomy for thinking skills and explored its implications for teaching and research.

References

Edward E. Smith & Bertram C. Bruce. (1981). An outline of a conceptual framework for the teaching of thinking skills (Technical Report No. 4844). Bolt Beranek and Newman.