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Alper, Lynne et al. (1996 May). Problem-based
mathematics-not
just for the college-bound. In Educational Leadership, 18-21.
Reviewed by Amy Holcombe.
Belenky, M.F., Clinchy, B.M., Goldberger, N.R., & Tarule, J.M. (1986).
Women's ways of knowing: The development of
self,
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voice, and mind. Reading MA: New York: Basic Books. Chapter One:
Silence. Chapter Two: Received Knowledge: Listening to the Voice of
Others. Reviewed by: Kellie McGovern
Bereiter, C. (1991, April). Implications of
connections for thinking
about rules. Educational Researcher, 10-16. Reviewed by Elaine Koehne
Berliner, D. C. (1986, August/September). In
pursuit of the expert pedagogue. Educational Researcher, 5-13.
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Bracey, G. (1990, January). Results of cognition
research could help improve educational software. Electronic Learning,
9(4), 18. Reviewed by Erik Singer.
Bransford, J. D., & Vye, N.J. (1989). A
perspective on cognitive research
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Brody, Herb. (1996, February/March). Session with
the cybershrink - an interview with Sherry Turkle. Technology Review,
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Brophy, J. (1987).Synthesis of research on
strategies for motivating students to learn. _Educational
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Brophy, J. (1987, October). Synthesis of
research on strategies for motivating students to learn. Educational
Leadership, 40-48. Reviewed by Tammie O'Brien.
The mind's journey from novice to expert.
American Educator, 6-15, 38-46. Reviewed by Dan Watola.
Bruner, J. (1990). Acts of meaning.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press Reviewed by Katherine Goff
Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Holum, A. (1991).
Cognitive
apprenticeship: making thinking visible. American Educator, 6-11,
38-46. Reviewed by Dan Watola
Crandell, T.L., Kleid, N.A., & Soderston, C. (1996). Empirical
evaluation of concept mapping: A job performance aid for writers.
Technical Communications, 43 (2), 157-163. Reviewed by Lorraine Sherry.
Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990) Flow: the
psychology of optimal
experience. New York: Harper & Row. Reviewed by Stephen Krett.
Dede, C. (no date).The evolution of learning
devices: Smart objects,
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future of networking technologies for learning, a series of white papers
for the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology.
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Reviewed by Clark J. Nelson.
Derry, S. J. (1992). Beyond symbolic processing:
Expanding horizons for
educational psychology. Journal of Educational Psychology, 84, 413-418.
Reviewed by Chuck Ferguson.
Drexler, Eric K. (1987). Hypertext Publishing and
the Evolution of Knowledge:
an edited version of a paper orginaloy submitted to Hypertext 87 conference.
Social Intelligence, Vol. 1, No. 2, 87-120. [On-line]. Available
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(Since no page numbers exist in this html document, location of quotes is
referred by bolded heading within the paper.) Reviewed by Tom Breeden.
Driscoll, M. P. (1994). Psychology of learning
for instruction.
Needham Heights MA: Allyn & Bacon. Reviewed by Michael S. Batty.
Eggebrecht, J., Dagenais, R., Dosch, D., Merczak, N. J., Park, M. N.,
Styer, S.C., Workman, D. (1996) Reconnecting
the sciences. Educational Leadership, 53 (8) 4-8.
Ellis,Michael E. (May 1992). Applying Cognitive
Theories to multimedia instructional designs. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the International communication Association (42nd,
Miami, FL, May 20-25, 1992). 37p. Reviewed by Charlotte Knauke
Gagne, E.D., Yekovich, C.W., & Yekovich, F. R. (1993). The cognitive psychology of school learning (2nd
ed.). New York: HarperCollins. Chapter 3: Overview of the Human
Information-Processing System. 38-55. Reviewed by Monica Weber
Gibbs, N. (1995). The EQ factor. _Time
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Gilligan, C. (1993). In an different voice:
Psychological theory and women's development (2nd ed.). Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press Reviewed by Katherine Goff
Goleman, D. (1995). Emotional intelligence. New
York: Bantam. ISBN 0-553-09503-X. Reviewed by Jim McHeyser.
Heers, S., Mosier, K. & Skitka, L. Automation and
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1996. Reviewed by Jeff Forrest.
Hull, G.A. (1989). Research on writing:
Building a cognitive and social
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Thinking curriculum:Current cognitive research (pp.105-128). Yearbook of the
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Reviewed by Elaine
Koehne.
Isaacs, D. (1994) The impact of
telecommunications on education. Search, 25, 170-173. Reviewed by Meg
Tobler.
Mayer, R.E. (1987). Learnable aspects of problem
solving: Some
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of cognitive psychology: Problem solving, education, and computing (pp.
109-122). Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum. Reviewed by Patty Jordan.
McGilly, K. (1996). Classroom lessons:
Integrating cognitive theory
and classroom practice. Camabridge MA: The MIT Press. Reviewed by
Regina Montera.
Morganthau, T. (1994, October). IQ: Is it
destiny? Newsweek, 53-55. Reviewed by Tammie O'Brien.
Murphy, M. et al. (1996 March). Incentives pay
off in technological literacy. In Educational Leadership, 54-56.
Reviewed by Amy Holcombe.
Nickerson, Raymond S. (1990). The teaching of
thinking perspectives and approaches. In C. Hedley, J. Houtz, & A.
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curriculum, and literacy (pp. 21-33). Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Reviewed by
Elaine Koehne.
Noble, D. D. (1989). Cockpit cognition: Education,
the
military and cognitive engineering. AI & Society, 3, 271-296. Reviewed by Jeff
Forrest.
Norman, Donald A. (1993). Things that make us
smart (Chapter 2, pp 19-41).
Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Reviewed by Tom
Breeden.
Norman, D. (1993). Things that make us
smart. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley. Chapter 3: The power of
representation. Reviewed by Lorraine Sherry
Norman, D. (1993). Things That Make Us
Smart. Chapter 4: Fitting the
artifact to the person Reading MA: Addison-Wesley. Reviewed by Michael S.
Batty
Norman, Donald A. (1993). Things That Make Us
Smart. Chapter 5: The
Human Mind. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. Reviewed by:
James "J.R." Robertson IV
Norman, D. (1993). Things that make us smart.
Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley. Chapter 6: Distributed Cognition. Reviewed
by Chuck Ferguson
Norman, D. A. (1993). Things that make us
smart. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley. Chapter 7: A place for
everything, and everything in its place. Reviewed by Dan Watola.
Norman, D. (1993). Things that make us
smart. Reading MA: Addison-Wesley.
Chapter 8: Predicting the future. Reviewed by Denise Herman.
Norman, D. (1993). Things that make us
smart.
Reading MA: Addison-Wesley Chapter 9: Soft and Hard Technology. Reviewed by
Kellie McGovern.
Norman, D., Gentner, D., & Stevens, A. (1976). Comments on learning schemata
and memory representation. In D. Klahr (Ed.), Cognition and instruction.
Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Reviewed by Brent Wilson.
Papert, Seymour. (1993, July). The Children's
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Perkins, D. (1992). Smart schools: From
training memories to educating minds. New
York: The Free Press. Chapter 1: Smart schools. Reviewed by Belinda
D. Aboshanab.
Perkins, D. (1992). Smart schools: better
thinking and learning for
every child. Chapter2: The alarm bells. (pp. 19-42). New York, NY: The
Free Press. Reviewed by Amy Holcombe.
Perkins, D. (1992). Smart schools. New
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Chapter 3: Teaching and learning (pp. 43-72). Reviewed by Regina Montera.
Perkins, D. (1992). Smart Schools: Better
thinking and learning for
every child. Classrooms: The Role of Distributed Intelligence.
(pp. 131-154) New York: The Free Press. Reviewed by Erik Singer.
Perkins, D. (1992). Smart schools: Better
thinking and learning for every
child. New York: The Free Press. Chapter 5: Curriculum: Creating the
metacurriculum. Reviewed by Meg Tobler.
Perkins, D. (1992).Smart schools: Better thinking
and learning for every
child. New York: The Free Press. Chapter 7: MOTIVATION: The cognitive
cconomy of schooling. Reviewed by Meg Tobler.
Perkins, David. (1992). Smart schools: From
training memories to educating
minds. Chapter 8 - Victory gardens for revitalized education. New York:
The Free Press. Reviewed by Tammie O'Brien.
Perkins, David. (1992). Smart schools: From
training memories to
educating minds. Chapter 9: The challenge of wide-scale change.
(pp. 204-230). New York: The Free Press. Reviewed by Monica Weber
Pipher, Mary B. (1994). Reviving Ophelia:
Saving the selves of
adolescent girls. New York: Putnum. Reviewed by Cindy Osoro.
Resnick, L. B. (1987, December). Learning in
school and out. Educational Researcher, 13-20. Reviewed by Belinda D.
Aboshanab.
Rheingold, Howard (1994-1996) Brainstorms, Howard
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Revelle, W. (1993). Individual differences in
personality and motivation:
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Weiskrantz (Eds.), Attention: Selection, awareness and control: A tribute
to Donald Broadbent (pp. 346-373). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
http://pmc.psych.nwu.edu/revelle/publications/broadbent/broad.html
Reviewed by Clark J. Nelson
Savery, J. R., and Duffy, T. M. (1995). Problem
based learning: An instructional
model and its constructivist framework. Educational Technology, 35,
31-38. Reviewed by Chuck Ferguson
Schank, Roger C. (1993-1994). A radical look at
education and
goal-based scenarios. The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 3 (4),
429-453. Reading MA: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Reviewed by Kellie
McGovern.
Smith, M. M. (1996, May/June). The creative
edge. Electronic Learning, 47-54. Reviewed by Belinda D. Aboshanab.
Stone, J. (1996). Developmentalism: An
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Reviewed by Katherine Goff
Tarnas, R. (1991). The passion of the western mind:
Understanding the
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Reviewed by Lee Calvert.
Turkle, S., & Papert, S. (1991). Epistemological pluralism
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Constructionism. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. Reviewed by Lorraine Sherry
Van Dusen, L., & Worthen, B. (1995, October). Can integrated
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Leadership, 53, 28-33. Reviewed by Monica Weber
Volk, Tyler (1995). Metapatterns. New York,
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Wickens, C. D. & Flach, J. M. (1988).Information
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San Diego CA: Academic Press. Reviewed by Jeff Forrest.
Willis, S. (1991, September). The complex art of
motivating students. ASCD Update, 1, 4-5. Reviewed by Erik Singer.
Wilson, B. G. (Ed.). (1996). Constructivist
learning environments: Case
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Technology Publications. Reviewed by Denise Herman.
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