References For Active Learning

(Prepared by Judith S. Liebman, Professor Emerita of Operations Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, email: jliebman@uiuc.edu; last updated January, 1997)

Anderson, John R. 1995 Cognitive psychology and its implications, W. H. Freeman and Company, New York

Andre, Thomas and Phye, Gary D. 1986, "Cognition, Learning, and Education," in Cognitive classroom learning, ed. Gary D. Phye and Thomas Andre, Academic Press, New York, pp. 1-19.

Byrnes, James P. 1996, Cognitive development and learning in instructional contexts, Allyn and Bacon, a Simon & Schuster company, Needham Heights, MA 02194

Davis, James R. 1993, Better teaching, more learning: strategies for success in postsecondary settings, Oryx Press, Phoenix AZ 85012-3397

Fellers, Jack W. 1996, "People skills: using the cooperative learning model to teach students 'people skills'," Interfaces, Vol. 26, No. 5 (September-October), pp. 42-49.

Halpern Diane F. & Associates 1994, Changing college classrooms: new teaching and learning strategies for an increasingly complex world, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco

Hong, EunSook and O'Neil Jr., Harold F. 1992, "Instructional strategies to help learners build relevant mental models in inferential statistics," Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 150-159

Howell, K. C. 1996, "Introducing cooperative learning into a dynamics lecture class," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 85, No. 1 (January), pp. 69-76.

Johnson, K. A. and L. J. Foa, 1989, Instructional Design: New Alternatives for Effective Education and Training , Macmillan Publishing Company, New York

Johnson, D. W., R. T. Johnson, and K. A. Smith, 1991, "Cooperative Learning," ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 4 , School of Education and Human Development, The George Washington University, Washington D. C.

Johnson, R. T., D. W. Johnson and K. A. Smith, 1990, "Cooperative Learning: An Active Learning Strategy for the College Classroom," Baylor Educator, Winter:11-16

Johnson, D. W., Johnson, R. T., and K. A. Smith, 1991, Active Learning: Cooperation in the College Classroom, Interaction Book Company, 7208 Cornelia Drive, Edina, MN 55435, Telephone: 612-831-9500

Kulhavy, Raymond W., Schwartz, Neil H. and Peterson, Sarah 1986, "Working memory: the encoding process," in Cognitive classroom learning, ed. Gary D. Phye and Thomas Andre, Academic Press, New York, pp. 115-136.

Lasdon, Leon and Liebman, Judith S. 1997, "Teaching nonlinear programming using active learning" , submitted for publication

Liebman, Judith S., 1994, "New Approaches in Operations Research Education", International Transactions in Operational Research, Volume 1, No. 2, pp. 1189-1196

Liebman, Judith S. 1996, "Promoting active learning during lectures," OR/MS Today, Vol.23, No. 6 (December).

Liebman, Judith S. 1997, "Professor Liebman, will this be on the test?" scheduled to appear in OR/MS Today in the 1997 December issue.

Liebman, Judith S. 1997, "Teaching operations research: lessons from cognitive psychology", submitted for publication.

Meyers, Chet and Jones, Thomas B. 1991, "Promoting active learning: strategies for the college classroom," Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco.

Paas, Fred G. W. C. 1992, "Training strategies for attaining transfer of problem-solving skills in statistics: a cognitive load approach, "Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 429-434.

Reisberg, Daniel 1997, Cognition: Exploring the science of the mind, W. W. Norton & Company, New York.

Schoenfeld, A. H., 1987, Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, N. J.

Strube, Gerhard and Wender, Karl F. (Editors) 1993, The Cognitive Psychology of Knowledge, North Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam

VanLehn, Kurt 1989 "Problem solving and cognitive skill acquisition" in Foundations of Cognitive Science, edited by Michael I. Posner, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 527-579

West, C. K., J. A. Farmer, and P. M. Wolff, 1991, Instructional Design: Implications from Cognitive Science, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.

Wlodkowski, R. J., 1985, Enhancing adult motivation to learn , Jossey-Bass, San Francisco

Richards, Larry G., Gorman, Michael, Scherer, William T. and Landel, Robert D. 1995, "Promoting active learning with cases and instructional modules," Journal of Engineering Education, Vol. 84, No. 4 (October), pp. 375-381.

Sweller, John and Chandler, Paul 1994, "Why some material is difficult to learn, Cognition and Instruction," Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 185-233.

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