Summer 2015 Journal Club Papers
July 16, 2015
Schwartz, Daniel L., John D. Bransford, and David Sears. "Efficiency and innovation in transfer." Transfer of learning from a modern multidisciplinary perspective (2005): 1-51.
July 9, 2015
Johnson, David W., and Roger T. Johnson. "An educational psychology success story: Social interdependence theory and cooperative learning." Educational researcher 38.5 (2009): 365-379.
http://edr.sagepub.com/content/38/5/365.short
July 2, 2015
Freeman, Scott, et al. "Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111.23 (2014): 8410-8415.
http://www.pnas.org/content/111/23/8410.abstract
Video: "Is Lecturing Unethical?"
June 11, 2015
Collins, Allan, John Seely Brown, and Susan E. Newman. "Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics." Knowing, learning, and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser 18 (1989): 32-42.
June 4, 2015
Mazur, Eric. (1997) . Peer instruction . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 25-31.
Smith, GA 2008, 'First-Day Questions for the Learner-Centered Classroom', The National Teaching & Learning Forum, vol. 17, no. 5, pp. 1-4.
May 28, 2015
Meltzer, David E., and Kandiah Manivannan. "Transforming the lecture-hall environment: The fully interactive physics lecture." American Journal of Physics 70.6 (2002): 639-654.
http://scitation.aip.org/content/aapt/journal/ajp/70/6/10.1119/1.1463739
May 14, 2015
Schwartz, Daniel L., and John D. Bransford. "A time for telling." Cognition and instruction 16.4 (1998): 475-5223.
April 30, 2015
Marra, Rose M., et al. "Women Engineering Students and Self‐Efficacy: A Multi‐Year, Multi‐Institution Study of Women Engineering Student Self‐Efficacy." Journal of Engineering Education 98.1 (2009): 27-38.
Recommended Readings
Books to get started:
Kober, Nancy. Reaching Students:: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering . National Academies Press, 2015.
PDF available for download (Free): http://www.nap.edu/catalog/18687/reaching-students-what-research-says-about-effective-instruction-in-undergraduate
Bransford, John D., Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking. How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school . National Academy Press, 1999.
PDF available for download (Free): http://www.nap.edu/catalog/9853/how-people-learn-brain-mind-experience-and-school-expanded-edition
Describing and Measuring STEM Teaching Practices: A Report from a National Meeting on the Measurement of Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Teaching , American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2013
PDF available for download (Free): http://ccliconference.org/measuring-teaching-practices/