Effective Instruction for STEM Disciplines: From Learning Theory to College Teaching

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. About the Authors. 1. Is There a Problem?: Or Is the Problem That We Don't Think There Is a Problem? 2. Learning and Memory: How Does Learning Happen? 3. Perception: When All Else Fails, Start at the Beginning. 4. Processing and Active Learning: How Does It Happen? 5. Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Its Relationship to Course Outcomes. 6. Interactive Engagement and Active Learning: Retrieval Events. 7. Some Active Learning Techniques: Studying, Retrieval, and Schemata Construction. 8. Problem-Based Learning: Where Am I Ever Going to Use This Stuff? 9. Transfer: What Are Your Course Outcomes? 10. Teaching for Transfer: Applying What Is Known. 11. Applications. Appendix: Bloom's Taxonomy and Educational Outcomes: The McBeath Action Verbs. Glossary. References. Index.