CHP Reading List

Here are a few books and papers that I recommend. (I must admit that I have not finished reading all of the books.) Listed in no particular order.

Science Education

Teaching Methods and Case Studies

• Science Teaching Reconsidered: A Handbook, prepared by the Committee on Undergraduate Science Education, National Research Council, (National Academy Press: Washington, DC, 1997); http://books.nap.edu/catalog/5287.html.
  A must read for anyone starting out in teaching. You can also search all of their books and reports at the NAP Home Page.

• D. Laurillard, Rethinking University Teaching: A Framework for the Effective Use of Educational Technology, (Routledge: London, 1993).
  Not an easy read, but an excellent treatise on using technology in education.

• S. Tobias, Revitalizing Undergraduate Science: Why Some Things Work and Most Don't, (Research Corporation: Tucson, AZ, 1992).
  If you ever get a chance to hear Tobias talk don't miss her!

• J. N. Spencer, "New Directions in Teaching Chemistry: A Philosophical and Pedagogical Basis," J. Chem. Ed., 1999, 76, 566.
  A very nice summary and argument for using guided inquiry in teaching.

• D. S. Domin, "A Review of Laboratory Instruction Styles," J. Chem. Ed., 1999, 76, 543.
  Characterization of Expository, Inquiry, Discovery, and Problem-based teaching methods.

• CONFCHEM Archives On-line Conferences organized by the DivCHED Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE).
  Contains papers and discussion archives on a wide variety of chemical education topics.

Motivation

• D. A. Norman, Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes in the Age of the Machine, (Addison-Wesley: Reading, MA, 1993).
  "Motivation turned out to be far more powerful than the cognitive variables I was addressing. Those students who were highly motivated learned the material far better than those who were disinterested." pg. 30.

• S. Tobias, They're Not Dumb, They're Different: Stalking the Second Tier, (Research Corporation: Tucson, AZ, 1990).

Assessment

• T. A. Angelo and K. P. Cross, Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers, 2nd. Ed., (Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA, 1994).
  A comprehensive handbook on assessing your teaching methods. See also the on-line resources at The Field-Tested Learning Assessment Guide.

• S. C. Ehrmann, The Flashlight Program, Evaluation and Assessment: Articles and Related URLs.

Other

• T. L. Hankins and R. J. Silverman, Instruments and the Imagination, (Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, 1995).
  Provides an interesting historical perspective relevant to technology in education.

Science and Research

• D. Goodstein, "The Big Crunch" MRS Bulletin 20(10) (1995) 7; <http://www.caltech.edu/~goodstein/crunch.html (28 July 2000).

• D. Kennedy, "Making Choices in the Research University," in The Research University in a Time of Discontent, (Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore, 1994).

• J. Ziman, Prometheus Bound: Science in a Dynamic Steady State, (Cambridge University Press: New York, 1994).

• H. H. Bauer, Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method, (University of Illinois Press: Urbana, IL, 1992); See also his on-line article on Ethics in Science.

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