Current research focuses on developing and assessing computer based curricula for thermal physics.
This offers a context in which to understand conceptual change microgenetically and to use that understanding to foster more effective learning. Other research topics include children's theories of matter, children's understanding of disease, and children's magical thinking. This research is placed within a theoretical framework that includes the theory-theory perspective, mental models, the relation between metaconceptual and conceptual development, parallels between ontogeny development in the history of science, and the importance of a microgenetic approach to conceptual change. Use of history of science to understand and remedy students' misconceptions about heat and temperature. Oxford University Press.