Topics and Assignments

Class	Date	Topic	Readings	Assignment
1	1/28	Introduction to class / Introduction to cognitive psychology	KWSK, Chap. 1-2; Mislevy, Almond, & Lukas
2	2/4	Connectionism	CPEA: Section 1 & pp. 33-40, Redish (2004), Kintsch (1988)	1 paragraph about you
3	2/11	Psychology & assessment arguments 1	CPEA, Section 2; KWSK, Chap. 3; Greeno, Collins, & Resnick (1997); Mislevy, Steinberg, Almond, Haertel, & Penuel (2003)
4	2/18	Psychology & assessment arguments 2	Mislevy & Risconcente; CPEA, Section 3; Mislevy (2003); Newstead et al (2002); *Bao & Redish (n.d.); *Holyoak (1991); *TGTE	Questions on evidence-centered design
5	2/25	Expertise Research	Ericcson & Charness (1994) Katz (1994); *Mislevy, Steinberg, Breyer, Almond, & Johnson (1999); *Camerer & Johnson (1991);* Steinberg, L.S., & Gitomer, D.G. (1996)	Questions based on expertise research
6	3/3	Design patterns for assessment	Mislevy & Rahman (2007), Baxter, Elder, & Glaser (1996), Design patterns (PADI Research Group)
7	3/10	Trait and behavioral perspectives	Carroll (1976); Hively, Patterson, & Page (1968); *Glaser (1963); *TGTE; *Salthouse (1991); *Douglas (2001)	Commentary for Carroll (1976)
	3/17	Spring Break—no class
	3/24	AERA—no class
8	3/31	The information processing perspective	Embretson (1998); VanLehn (1989); *Simon (1975); *Greeno(1976); *Larkin & Simon (1987); *Mayer, Larkin, & Kadane (1984)	Commentary for VanLehn (1989)
9	4/7	Theory-based task design	*Kindfield (1999); *Singley & Bennett (2002); *Bejar (1993);*TGTE
10	4/14	Cognitive diagnosis	CPEA, Section 4; Rupp & Mislevy (2007); Hendrickson & Mislevy (2005); Mislevy & Gitomer (1996); *Frederiksen & White (1988); *Mislevy, Steinberg, & Almond (2002); *TGTE
11	4/21	Schemas & Knowledge representations	Rumelhart (1980); Mislevy et al. (2007); Greeno (1989); Collins & Ferguson (1993); *Singley & Bennett (2002); *Kindfield (1999); *TGTE	Commentary on Knowledge Representations
12	4/28	The sociocultural/situative perspective	Brown, Collins, & Duguid (1989); Saxe (1988); Gipps (1999); *Resnick (1997); *Delandshire (2002); *Myford & Mislevy (1996)
13	5/5	Info processing vs sociocultural debate	Anderson, Reder, & Simon (1996 & 1997); Greeno (1997); Anderson, Greeno, Reder, & Simon (2000); Mislevy (2006); *TGTE; *Frederiksen & Collins (1989); *Hurst, et al. (1997)	Prospectus for final project
14	5/12	Theory-based task design, continued	*Kindfield (1999); *Singley & Bennett (2002); *Bejar (1993);*TGTE
		Finals week Project due 5/21		Final project: Analysis + (design pattern and/or Toulmin diagram), or approved alternative

Boldface indicates focus reading for class discussion

* indicates a paper that a student will summarize for the class.

CPEA = Cognitive psychology and educational assessment, Mislevy (2006)

KWSK = Knowing what students know, National Research Council (2002); Pellegrino, Chudowsky, & Glaser (Eds.)

*TGTE = A “class of expertise” chapter from Toward a general theory of expertise, Ericcson & Smith (Eds.) (1991): Allard & Starkes on motor skills, Anzai on physics, Charness on chess, Dorner & Scholkopf on controlling complex systems, Patel & Groen on medical expertise, Scardamalia & Bereiter on literate expertise, Sloboda on musical expertise.