PER Journal Club

This site is devoted to the literature our group is currently reviewing. The Journal Club is meeting on Fridays in Loomis 322. Dates and times of Club meetings will also be posted on the group's Calendar of Events. Any questions or inquiries should be sent to Prof. Jose Mestre. Members of the group can access select readings by going to the “Readings” folder in the Research area.

Fall 2006

Title	Authors	Discussion Leader	Date
“Another Reason That Physics Students Learn by Rote ,” Phys. Educ. res., Am. J. Phys. Suppl. , 67(7), pp. S52-S57 (1999)	Andrew Elby	David	Dec. 8

“How Mathematics Propels the Development of Physical Knowledge,” Journal of Cognition and Development, 6(1), pp. 65-88 (2005)	Daniel Schwartz, Taylor Martin, and Jay Pfaffman	Michael	Nov. 10

“Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment,” Phi Delta Kappan, pp. 139-148 (1998)	Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam	David	Oct. 27

“A Theory of Language in Learning Physics”, Pre-print	David Brookes and Eugenia Etkina	David	Oct. 13

“Motivational Considerations in the Study of Instruction”, Cognition and Instruction, 5(4), pp. 289-309 (1988)	Mark R. Lepper	Eugene	Sept. 29

Ch. 8: “The Split-attention Principle in Multimedia Learning” in The Cambridge handbook of Multimedia Learning, pp. 135-146 (2005)	Paul Ayres and John Sweller	David	Sept. 15

Spring 2006

Title	Authors	Discussion Leader	Date
Ch. 2: “Fuzzy-Trace Theory: Implications for Transfer in Teaching and Learning” in Transfer of Learning from a Modern Multidisciplinary Perspective, pp. 53-87 (2005)	Christopher Wolfe, Valerie Reyna, and Charles Brainerd	Adam	April 7

“Schema Abstraction” in a Multiple-Trace Memory Model, Psychological Review, Vol. 93, No. 4, 1986, pp. 411-428	Douglas L. Hintzman	Adam	Mar. 31

Model Analysis: Representing and assessing the dynamics of student learning, Phys. Rev. ST - PER, 2 (2006)	Lei Bao and Joe Redish	Michael	Mar. 10

Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part I: A macroscopic perspective, Am. J. Phys., Vol. 73, No. 11, November 2005	Christian H. Kautz, Paula R. L. Heron, Michael E. Loverude, and Lillian C. McDermott	Eugene	Feb. 24

Student understanding of the ideal gas law, Part II: A microscopic perspective, Am. J. Phys., Vol. 73, No. 11, November 2005	Christian H. Kautz, Paula R. L. Heron, Peter S. Shaffer, and Lillian C. McDermott	Eugene	Feb. 24

Fall 2005

Title	Authors	Discussion Leader	Date
Rethinking Transfer: A Simple Proposal With Multiple Implications, Review of Research in Education, Ch. 3, Vol.24 pp. 61-100.	John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz	Vadas	Nov. 18

Ch. 5 Knowledge Representation and Coordination in the Transfer Process	R. Dufresne, J. Mestre, T. Thaden-Koch, W. Gerace, and W. Leonard	Michael	Oct. 7th

Ch. 4 What Coordination has to say about Transfer	A. diSessa and J. Wagner	Adam	Oct. 21st

Ch. 3 Resources, Framing, and Transfer	D. Hammer, A. Elby, R. Scherr, and E. Redish	Eugene	Oct. 28th