Like many domains of professional psychology, school psychology continues to struggle with the problem of distinguishing scientific from pseudoscientific and otherwise questionable clinical practices. We review evidence for the scientist-practitioner gap in school psychology and provide a user-friendly primer on science and scientific thinking for school psychologists. Specifically, we (a) outl...

The ability to use mathematics in other disciplines is generally expected of all science and engineering students. Anecdotal evidence suggests that many students lack this ability. While there is a substantial body of research dealing with the transfer of training, and the transfer of mathematical skills to problem solving in everyday life, there is very little relating to the transfer of mathe...

The thesis of this paper is the identification of Telematics as a distinctive discipline, a discipline that shares a lot with Computer Science and with Electrical Engineering, but whose body of knowledge deserves being identified as such, since it is today already big enough and is expected to grow even more in future. We begin with the historical background of Telematics, continuing with a des...

This paper describes evidence that interested members of the public can acquire increased insights and awareness of science and technology if they experience relatively informal lessons containing stimulating science and technology practical exemplars and illustrations drawn from everyday public life situations. At UCT we have developed many successful teaching methods and techniques, using num...