David Hammer, Ph.D.

David Hammer is a professor of education and department chair in the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. Professor Hammer has focused his research on students’ intuitive “epistemologies” (knowledge about knowing and learning), how instructors interpret and respond to student thinking, and resource-based models of knowledge and reasoning.

Professor Hammer can speak about:

• Learning and teaching of science, mainly physics
• Engineering education