Project Zero's mission is to understand and enhance learning, thinking, and creativity in the arts, as well as in humanistic and scientific disciplines, at individual and institutional levels.

Selected Early Projects

Catalyst: Developing Technology for Education was a project that investigated how computers could best be used as teaching machines.

Early Symbolization and the Transition to Literacy was a group of closely related studies centered on representation capacities in younger children.

Figurative Language was an investigation of the development of figurative language skills in children.

Use the following links to see selected projects in many of Project Zero's research areas:

Current Research Projects

Selected Early Projects

Arts Projects

Assessment Projects

Learning in Out-of-School Settings Projects

Multiple Intelligences Projects

School Change/School Improvement Projects

Thinking Projects

Understanding Projects

Visible Thinking Projects

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