James Cooper
James Cooper holds the B.A. from the University of Michigan in psychology and the Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in Educational Psychology, Statistics and Measurement. He is Professor of Graduate Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills where he teaches courses in research methods, educational psychology and program evaluation. In 1991 Dr. Cooper received the Lyle F. Gibson Distinguished Teaching Award from Dominguez Hills.
Dr. Cooper is Director of the Network For Cooperative Learning in Higher Education and editor of the Cooperative Learning and College Teaching newsletter. From 1990-1993 Dr. Cooper served as project director of a three-year grant from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) of the U.S. Department of Education, in which he assessed the impact of cooperative learning on a variety of cognitive and affective student measures in thirty undergraduate classes.
Dr. Cooper was a member of the advisory board for the teaching/learning strand of the National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning and Assessment housed at Pennsylvania State University. He has published a number of, book chapters, journal articles and a workbook dealing with personalized instruction and cooperative learning at the college level.
His current research interests include applications of small-group and interactive instruction to legal education, science and mathematics education, and technology-based instruction.
Pamela Robinson
Pamela Robinson holds the B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Dominguez Hills and the M.A. in Experimental Psychology from the California State University, Fullerton. She is a Lecturer in the School of Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills where she teaches courses in motivation and learning, research methods and multicultural issues in education.
Ms. Robinson is the Associate Editor of the Cooperative Learning and College Teaching newsletter. She currently serves as evaluation consultant for a five-year school-to-work project jointly funded by the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education.
To search the annotated bibliography, select a search method below
-
Section shows all the citations in a particular section. The sections include: Research and theory; Applications; General resources; and SMET resources.
Discipline provides an index from which can be selected one (or several) categories to view.
Keyword permits 1 or 2 text strings as search criteria. The Author, Title, Annotation, and Abstract fields are searched for matching keywords.
or to look at the entire annotated bibliography (117k) select viewing either
or to look at the article, "Small-group Instruction in Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology (SMET) Disciplines: A Status Report and an Agenda for the Future" (63k) select viewing either
Note: To view the bibliography as a PDF file (Portable Document Format), the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in is required. You can download Acrobat Reader for free by linking to the Adobe Home Page and following the installation instructions that they provide. The program is available for Macintosh, Window, DOS, and Sun UNIX platforms.
