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Cognition & Critical Thinking/Reasoning

Cook, M.P. (2006), Visual representations in science education: The influence of prior knowledge and cognitive load theory on instructional design principles. Sci. Ed., 90: 1073-1091. DOI: 10.1002/sce.20164

van Gelder, T. (2005) Teaching Critical Thinking: Some Lessons From Cognitive Science, College Teaching, 53:1, 41-48. DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.53.1.41-48

Gerjets, P. and Scheiter, S. (2003) Goal Configurations and Processing Strategies as Moderators Between Instructional Design and Cognitive Load: Evidence From Hypertext-Based Instruction, Educational Psychologist, 38:1, 33-41, DOI: 10.1207/S15326985EP3801_5

Pass, J. L., Moreno, R., and Brunken, R., (2010) Cognitive Load Theory. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.

Paul, R. W. (1990) Critical Thinking: What Every Person Needs to Survive in a Rapidly Changing World. Foundation for Critical Thinking.

Paul, R. W. (1995) Critical Thinking: How to Prepare Students for a Rapidly Changing World. Foundation for Critical Thinking. Center for Critical Thinking and Moral Critique.

Tsui, L. (1999) Courses and instruction affecting critical thinking. Research in Higher Education 40, 185–200. DOI: 10.1023/A:1018734630124

Curriculum & Design

Castro-Alonso, J. C. (2019) Visuospatial Processing for Education in Health and Natural Sciences. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature.

Crowe, A., Dirks, C., and Wenderoth, M.P., (2008) Biology in Bloom: Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy to Enhance Student Learning in DOI: 10.1187/cbe.08-05-0024

Davis, E. A., & Krajcik, J. S. (2005). Designing Educative Curriculum Materials to Promote Teacher Learning. Educational Researcher, 34(3), 3–14. DOI: 10.3102/0013189X034003003

Elder, L., and Paul, R., (1998) The Role of Socratic Questioning in Thinking, Teaching, and Learning, The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 71(5), 297-301. DOI:10.1080/00098659809602729

Gentry L. (2015). Teaching with questions. Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center), 28(1), 118–119. DOI: 10.1080/08998280.2015.11929207

Heim, A. B., & Holt, E. A. (2019). Benefits and Challenges of Instructing Introductory Biology Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs) as Perceived by Graduate Teaching Assistants. CBE life sciences education, 18(3), ar43. DOI: 10.1187/cbe.18-09-0193

Herrington, A. and Herrington, J. (2006). Authentic Learning Environments in Higher Education. Information Science Publishing.

Idsardi, R., Hahn, D. A., Bokor, J. R., & Luft, J. A. (2019). Modifying Scientific Research Into Introductory Science Course Lessons Using a 5E Lesson Format: An Active Learning Approach. Journal of College Science Teaching, 48(5), 14-21.

Jeroen J. G. van Merrienboer, Paul A. Kirschner & Liesbeth Kester (2003) Taking the Load Off a Learner's Mind: Instructional Design for Complex Learning, Educational Psychologist, 38:1, 5-13, DOI: 10.1207/S15326985EP3801_2

Kirschner, P. A., Sweller, J. and Clark, R. E. (2006) Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching, Educational Psychologist, 41:2, 75-86, DOI: 10.1207/s15326985ep4102_1

Kalyuga, S. and Renkl, A. (2010) Expertise reversal effect and its instructional implications: introduction to the special issue. Instr Sci 38, 209–215. DOI: 10.1007/s11251-009-9102-0

Miller, D. K., and Lang, P. L. (2016) Using the Universal Design for Learning Approach in Science Laboratories To Minimize Student Stress.  J. Chem. Educ. 93 (11), 1823-1828. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00108

Rogers, C., Harold, L. C., and Reinhard, T. (2013) On Becoming an Effective Teacher—Person-centered Teaching, Psychology, Philosophy, and Dialogues with Carl R. Rogers and Harold Lyon. London: Routledge

Rogers, C. (1980). A Way of Being. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Tiberghien, A., Veillard, L., Le Maréchal, J.‐F., Buty, C. and Millar, R. (2001), An analysis of labwork tasks used in science teaching at upper secondary school and university levels in several European countries. Sci. Ed., 85: 483-508. DOI:10.1002/sce.1020

Design thinking: Critical analysis and future evolution, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 10.1111/jpim.12610, 38, 6, (603-622). DOI: 10.1111/jpim.12604

Thomas,  L. R. (2012). Facilitating Authentic Learning, Grades 6-12: A Framework for Student-Driven Instruction. Corwin.

Tofade, T., Elsner, J., & Haines, S. T. (2013). Best practice strategies for effective use of questions as a teaching tool. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 77(7), 155. DOI:10.5688/ajpe777155

Vale R. D. (2013). The value of asking questions. Molecular biology of the cell, 24(6), 680–682. DOI:10.1091/mbc.E12-09-0660

Wenger-Trayner, E. (1999). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Evaluation

Kornell, N. (2020). Why and how you should read student evaluations of teaching. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.

Stroebe, W. (2016). Why Good Teaching Evaluations May Reward Bad Teaching. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11, 800 - 816.

Carrell, S.E., & West, J.E. (2008). Does Professor Quality Matter? Evidence from Random Assignment of Students to Professors. Journal of Political Economy, 118, 409 - 432.

Kornell, N., & Hausman, H.E. (2016). Do the Best Teachers Get the Best Ratings? Frontiers in Psychology, 7.

Coe, R., Aloisi, C., Higgins, S., & Major, L.E. (2014). What Makes Great Teaching? Review of the Underpinning Research.

MacNell, L., Driscoll, A.R., & Hunt, A.N. (2015). What’s in a Name: Exposing Gender Bias in Student Ratings of Teaching. Innovative Higher Education, 40, 291-303.

Uttl, B., & Smibert, D. (2017). Student evaluations of teaching: teaching quantitative courses can be hazardous to one’s career. PeerJ, 5</em>.

Learning Environment & Lesson Plans

Bernstein, D. A. (2021). Teaching styles and troublesome students. Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne, 62(4), 367–376. DIO: 10.1037/cap0000279

Haynes, A. (2010). The complete guide to lesson planning and preparation. Continuum

John, P. J., (2006) Lesson planning and the student teacher: re‐thinking the dominant model, Journal of Curriculum Studies, 38:4, 483-498, DOI: 10.1080/00220270500363620

Pace, J., & Hemmings, A. (2007). Understanding Authority in Classrooms: A Review of Theory, Ideology, and Research. Review of Educational Research, 77(1), 4-27. DOI: 10.3102/003465430298489

Skowron, J. (2015) Powerful Lesson Planning: Every Teacher's Guide to Effective Instruction. Skyhourse Publishing

Wenning, C. J. and Vieyra, R. E. "Classroom Management," in Teaching High School Physics: Managing the Physics Classroom [AIP Publishing (online), Melville, New York, 2020], DOI: 10.1063/9780735422056_001

Spaced Repetition Learning                                                                                                                                                      

Kelley, P., & Whatson, T. (2013). Making long-term memories in minutes: a spaced learning pattern from memory research in education. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7.

Matos, J.D., Petri, C.R., Mukamal, K.J., & Vanka, A. (2017). Spaced education in medical residents: An electronic intervention to improve competency and retention of medical knowledge. PLoS ONE, 12.

Sarwar, S., Samiullah, M., & Rahman, F. (2021). The Effect of Cognitive Acceleration Programme on Critical Thinking of Science Students at Secondary Level. International Journal of Innovation in Teaching and Learning (IJITL).

Zhan, L., Guo, D., Chen, G., & Yang, J. (2018). Effects of Repetition Learning on Associative Recognition Over Time: Role of the Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12.

Grad, R.M., Léger, D., Kaczorowski, J., Schuster, T., Adler, S., Aman, M., Archibald, D., Beaulieu, M., Chmelicek, J., Cornelissen, E., Delleman, B., Hadj-Mimoune, S., Horvey, S., Macaluso, S., Mintsioulis, S., Murdoch, S., Ng, B.W., Papineau, A., Rangwala, S., Rousseau, M., Rudkin, T.M., Schabort, I., Schultz, K.W., Snow, P., Wong, E., Wu, P., & Brailovsky, C.A. (2021). Does spaced education improve clinical knowledge among Family Medicine residents? A cluster randomized controlled trial. Advances in Health Sciences Education, 26, 771 - 783.

Transferable Skills & Teamwork

Dunne, E., and Rawlins, M. (2000) Bridging the Gap Between Industry and Higher Education: Training Academics to Promote Student Teamwork, Innovations in Education and Training International, 37(4), 361-371. DOI: 10.1080/135580000750052973

Demaria, M. C., Hodgson, Y., and Czech, D. P. (2018). Perceptions of Transferable Skills among Biomedical Science Students in the Final Year of Their Degree: What are the Implications for Graduate Employability? International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education (formerly CAL-laborate International), 26(7).

Tangalakis, K., Best, G., and Hryciw, D. H. (2017). Peer Assisted Study Sessions for the Development of Transferable Skills in Undergraduate Students from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds. International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education (formerly CAL-laborate International), 25(3).

Watson, H., and Burr, S. (2018) Twelve tips for teaching twelve transferable skills, MedEdPublish, 7(3) 39. DOI: 10.15694/mep.2018.0000177.1

Wilson, W., Ho, S., and Brookes, R. H.,(2018) Student perceptions of teamwork within assessment tasks in undergraduate science degrees, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education,43(5), 786-799. DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2017.1409334

Suleman, F. (2018) The employability skills of higher education graduates: insights into conceptual frameworks and methodological options. High Educ 76, 263–278. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-017-0207-0

Writing & Research

Armstrong, N.A., Wallace, C.S., and Chang, S. (2008) Learning from Writing in College Biology. Res Sci Educ 38, 483–499. DOI: 10.1007/s11165-007-9062-9

Balakumar, P., Inamdar, M. N., & Jagadeesh, G. (2013). The critical steps for successful research: The research proposal and scientific writing: (A report on the pre-conference workshop held in conjunction with the 64(th) annual conference of the Indian Pharmaceutical Congress-2012). Journal of pharmacology & pharmacotherapeutics, 4(2), 130–138. DOI: 10.4103/0976-500X.110895

Falk-Krzesinski, H. J., & Tobin, S. C. (2015). How Do I Review Thee? Let Me Count the Ways: A Comparison of Research Grant Proposal Review Criteria Across US Federal Funding Agencies. The journal of research administration, 46(2), 79–94.

Mansilla, V. B.,  Duraisingh, E. D., Wolfe, C .R. and Haynes, C. (2009) Targeted Assessment Rubric: An Empirically Grounded Rubric for Interdisciplinary Writing, The Journal of Higher Education, 80:3, 334-353, DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2009.11779016

Lerner, N. (2007). Laboratory Lessons for Writing and Science. Written Communication, 24(3), 191–222. DOI: 10.1177/0741088307302765

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Winkler, A.C., & McCuen, J.R. (1979). Writing the Research Paper: A Handbook.