Kathy Perkins and Sam McKaga will be trying to create a reading list for students of PER that either include new PER papers or ones from the broader literature that may be missed in Physics-department-based PER training of graduate students. They are extending the PER-community-insider golden oldies list in The "Core Reading" list from the 2005 FFPER conference.
I've included some that I think PER students should have read by the time they graduate. Some of these are so they will have a chance to discuss the limitations of the approaches and to understand what they might hear from the community. Others are fundamental papers in psychology or sociology that I think are relevant. I have also added some from David Hammer's reading course in Science Education a few years ago. Add your own to the bottom of the list and feel free to add comments after any of the papers.
Joe Redish
J. D. Bransford and M. K. Johnson, “Contextual prerequisites for understanding: Some investigations of comprehension and recall”, J. of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 11, 717-726 (1972);
J. S. Brown, A. Collins, P. Duguid, “Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning”, Educational Researcher 18:1 (Jan-Feb, 1989) 32-42.
S. Carey, "Cognitive science and science education", American Psychologist, 41:10 (1986) 1123-1130.
John Clement, Jack Lockhead, and George S. Monk, “Translation difficulties in learning mathematics,” Am. Mathematical Monthly 88 (1981) 286-290
A. Collins and W. Ferguson, “Epistemic forms and epistemic games: Structures and strategies to guide inquiry,” Educational Psychologist, 28:1 (1993) 25-42.
A. A. diSessa, “Toward an Epistemology of Physics,” Cognition and Instruction, 10 (1993) 105-225.
A. A. diSessa, “Knowledge in Pieces,” in Constructivism in the Computer Age, G. Foreman and P. B. Putall, eds. (Lawrence Earlbaum, 1988) 49-70.
E. Hutchins, "How a cockpit remembers its speeds", Cognitive Science 19 (1995) 265-288.
D. Kuhn, "Children and adults as intuitive scientists," Psych. Rev. 96:4, 674-689(1989).
G. Lakoff and M. Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (U. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1980).
J. L. Lemke, “Articulating communities: Sociocultural perspectives on science education,” Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 38:3, 296-316 (2001).
K. Metz, "Reassessment of developmental constraints on children's science instruction", Rev. of Educational Research 65:2 (1995) 93-127.
George A. Miller, “The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information,” Psychological Review 63 (1956) 81-97.
S. B. Most, B. J. Scholl, E. R. Clifford, and D. J. Simons, “What you see is what you set: Sustained inattentional blindness and the capture of awareness,” Psychological Review 112:1 (2005) 217-242.
A. S. Palincsar and A. L. Brown, "Reciprocal teaching of comprehension -- fostering and comprehension-monitoring activities", Cognition and Instruction 1:2 (1984) 117-175.
D. Rumelhart & A. Ortony, “The representation of knowledge in memory,” in R. Anderson & R. Spiro (Eds.), Schooling and the Acquisition of Knowledge, 99-135 (Erlbaum, 1977).
A. H. Schoenfeld, “When good teaching leads to bad results: The disasters of “well-taught” mathematics courses,” Educational Psychologist 23(2) 145-166 (1988).
A. H. Schoenfeld, "What's the fuss about metacognition?" in Cognitive Science and Mathematics Education, A. Schoenfeld, editor, (Erlbaum, 1987), chapter 8, 189-215.
D. J. Simons and C. F. Chabris, “Gorillas in our midst: Sustained inattentional blindness for dynamic events,” Perception, 28 (9), 1059-1074 (1999).
C. Steele, “A threat in the air: How stereotypes shape the intellectual identities of women and African Americans”, Am. Psych. 52, 613-629 (1997).
J. R. Stroop, “Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions,” Journal of Experimental Psychology 18, 643–662 (1935).
D. Tannen, “What’s in a frame? Surface evidence for underlying expectations,” in D. Tannen (Ed.), Framing in Discourse, 14-56 (Oxford University Press, 1993).
D. Tannen & C. Wallat, “Interactive frames and knowledge schemas in interaction: Examples from a medical examination/interview,” in D. Tannen (Ed.), Framing in Discourse, 57-76 (Oxford University Press, 1993).
P. C. Wason, “Reasoning,” in New horizons in psychology, B. M. Foss, Ed. (Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1966).
Submitted by Ayush Gupta