Vita
John B. Black
Address:
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th Street, Box 118
New York, NY 10027
Phone: (212)678-4007
Fax: (212)678-4048
Email: black@tc.columbia.edu
Education:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965-1970, BS in Mathematics, 1970
Stanford University, 1974-1978, PhD in Cognitive Psychology, 1979
Professional Experience:
2007—Present
Chair, Department of Human Development
Teachers College, Columbia University
2002—Present
Director, Institute for Learning Technologies
Teachers College, Columbia University
2002 --- Co-Chair
First Virtual University Conference, New York, NY
2001—Present
Cleveland E. Dodge Professor
Department of Human Development and
Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology
Teachers College, Columbia University
2000--Present
Coordinator, Cognitive Studies Program
Department of Human Development
Teachers College, Columbia University
1997—1999
Chair, Faculty Executive Committee
Teachers College, Columbia University
1987--Present
Professor, Department of Human Development
and Department of Mathematics, Science and Technology
Teachers College, Columbia University
1987--1995
Director of Literacy Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
1984--1994
Series editor of Ablex Publishing series on Cognition and Computing
1984--1994
Consulting Editor of the journal Human Computer Interaction
1983--1994
Consulting Editor of the journal Discourse Processes and Member of the
Editorial Board of the journal Text.
1992
Consultant to the American Psychological Association and the US
Department of Labor on Cognitive Task Analysis descriptions for
Dictionary of Occupational Titles
1991
Consultant to Secretaries Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills
(SCANS) in the US Department of Labor
1988-1991
Member of the NYS Adult Learning Services Council and the Literacy
Council for New York State that advises New York State Commissioner
of Education
1988--1991
Chair, Department of Communication, Computing and Technology,
Teachers College, Columbia University
1985--1986
Associate Professor, Department of Communication, Computing and
Technology, and Department of Developmental and Educational
Psychology, Teachers College, Columbia University
1984-1986
Consultant to the User Interface Institute at the IBM Thomas J. Watson
Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY.
!984-1986
Member of the Association for Computing Machinery Computer Human
Interaction Conference Program Committee
1983--1985
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, and Department of
Computer Science, Yale University
1983--1984
Consulting Editor of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
1982-1983
Consultant to the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation,
Advanced, Technology Center, Shelton, CT.
1978--1984
Consultant to the Applied Information Processing Psychology Project at
the Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA.
1980--1985
Consulting Editor of the journal Memory and Cognition.
!980
Co-Chair of the Second Conference of the Cognitive Science Society,
New Haven, CT
1979-1983
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, and Department of
Computer Science, Yale University
1978-1979
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Illinois,
Chicago
1976
Visiting Scientist in the Learning and Instruction Research Group. Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ.
1973--1974
Officer in US Army assigned as faculty member in Computer Science
Department, US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort
Leavenworth, Kansas
1970--1973
Officer in US Army assigned as computer expert and operations research
specialist at Sacramento Army Depot, Sacramento, CA
Selected Publications
Black, J.B. and Bower, G.H. (1979) Episodes as chunks in narrative memory. Journal of
Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 18, 309-318.
Black, J.B. Turner, T.J. and Bower, G.H. (1979) Point of view in narrative
comprehension, memory and production. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal
Behavior, 18, 187-198.
Black, J.B. and Wilensky, R. (1979) An evaluation of story grammars. Cognitive Science,
3, 21-130.
Bower, G.H., Black, J.B. and Turner, T.J. (1979) Scripts in memory for text. Cognitive
Psychology, 11, 702-220.
Owens, J., Bower, G.H. and Black, J.B. (1979) The "soap opera" effect in story recall.
Memory and Cognition, 7, 185-191.
Black, J.B. and Bower, G.H. (1980) Story understanding as problem-solving. Poetics, 9,
223-250.
Black, J.B. (1981) The effects of reading purpose on memory for text. In A. Baddeley,
and J. Long (Eds.) Attention and Performance IX. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, J.B. and Bern, H. (1981) Causal coherence and memory for events in narratives.
Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 20, 267-275.
Black, J.B. and Seberchts, M.M. (1981) Facilitating human-computer communication.
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2, 149-178.
Robertson, S.P., Black, J.B. and Johnson, P.N. (1981) Intention and topic in
conversation. Cognition and Brain Theory, 4, 303-326.
Black, J.B. (1982) Psycholinguistic processes in writing. In S. Rosenberg (ed.) Handbook
of applied psycholinguistics. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, J.B., Wilkes-Gibbs, D. and Gibbs, R.W. (1982) What writers need to know that
they don't know they need to know. In M. Nystrand (Ed.) What writers know: The
language, process and structure of written discourse. New York: Academic Press.
Reiser, B.J. and Black, J.B. (1982) Processing and structure models of comprehension.
Text, 2, 225- 252.
Black, J.B.and Moran, T.P. (1983) Learning and remembering command names. In M.
Schneider and J. Nichols (Eds.) Human factors in computer systems. Amsterdam:
North Holland.
Sebrechts, M.M., Deck, J. and Black, J.B. (1983) A diagrammatic approach to computer
instruction for the naive user. Behavioral Research Methods and
Instrumentation. 15, 200-207.
Robertson, S.P. and Black, J.B. (1984) Planning units in text editing behavior. In A.
Janda (Ed.) Human Factors in Computer Systems. Amsterdam: North Holland.
Galambos, J.A., Wikler, E.S., Black, J.B. and Sebrechts, M.M. (1984) How to tell your
computer what you mean: Ostension in interactive systems. In A. Janda (Ed.)
Human Factors in Computer Systems. Amsterdam: North Holland.
Lehnert, W.G., Robertson, S.P. and Black, J.B. (1984) Memory interactions during
question answering. In H. Mandl, N. Stein, and T. Trabasso (Eds.) Learning and
comprehension of text. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, J.B. and Seifert, C. (1984) The psychological study of story understanding. In C.
Cooper (Ed.) Researching response to literature and the teaching of literature.
Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Black, J.B., Galambos, J.A. and Read, S. (1984) Comprehending stories and social
situations. In R. Wyer T. Srull, and J. Hartwick (Eds.) Handbook of Social
Cognition. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, J.B., Galambos, and Reiser, B.J. (1984) Coordinating discovery and verification
research. In D. Kieras and M. Just (Eds.) New methods in the study of processes in
comprehension. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, J.B. (1984) Understanding and remembering stories. In J.R. Anderson and S.M.
Kosslyn (Eds.) Tutorials in learning and memory. San Francisco, CA: Freeman,
1984.
Sebrechts, M.M., Deck, J. Wagner, R.K. and Black, J.B. (1985) How human abilities
affect component skills in work processing. Behavioral Research Methods and
Instrumentation, 17, 251-259.
Britton, B.K. and Black, J.B. (Eds.) Understanding expository text. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum, 1985.
Black, J.B. (1985) An exposition on expository text. In B.K. Britton and J.B. Black (Eds.)
Understanding expository text. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Britton, B.K. and Black, J.B. (!985) Understanding expository text: From structure to
process and world knowledge. In B.K. Britton and J.B. Black (Eds.)
Understanding expository text. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Graesser, A.C. and Black, J.B. (Eds.) The psychology of questions. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum, 1985.
Galambos, J.A. and Black, J.B. (1985) Using knowledge of activities to understand and
Answer questions. In A.C. Graesser and J.B. Black (eds.) The psychology of
questions. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Robertson, S.P., Black, J.B. and Lehnert, W.G. (1985) Misleading question effects as
evidence for integrated question understanding and memory search. In A.C.
Graesser and J.B. Black (Eds.) The psychology of questions. Hillsdale, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Abbott, V. Black, J.B. and Smith, E.E. (1985) The representation of scripts in memory.
Journal of Memory and Language, 24, 179-199.
Reiser, B.J., Black, J.B. and Abelson, R.P. (1985) Knowledge structures in the
organization and retrieval of autobiographical memories. Cognitive Psychology,
17, 80-137.
Reiser, B.J., Black, J.B. and Lehnert, W.G. (1985) Thematic knowledge structures in the
understanding and generation of narratives. Discourse Processes, 8, 357-380.
Seifert, C.M., Robertson, S.P. and Black, J.B. (1985) Types of inferences made when
reading stories. Journal of Memory and Language. 24, 405-422.
Galambos, J.A., Abelson, R.P. and Black, J.B. (Eds.) Knowledge structures. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum, 1986
Abbott, V.A. and Black, J.B. (1986) Coherence inferences in text. In J.A. Galambos, R.P.
Abelson, and J.B. Black (eds.) Knowledge structures. Hilldale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Robertson, S.P. and Black, J.B. (1986) Structure and development of plans in computer
text editing. Human Computer Interaction, 2, 201-226.
Abelson, R.P. and Black, J.B. (1986) A functional-context approach to cognitive science.
In J. Galambos, R. Abelson and J. Black, (eds.) Knowledge structures. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
McGuigan, S.M. and Black, J.B. (1986) Understanding and remembering arguments. In
J. Galambos, R. Abelson and J. Black, (eds.) Knowledge structures. Hillsdale,
NJ: Erlbaum.
Kay, D. and Black, J.B. (1986) Summarization. In J. Galambos, R. Abelson and J. Black,
(Eds.) Knowledge structures. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Curtis, B., Soloway, E.M., Brooks, R.E., Black, J.B., Ehrlich, K. and Ramsey, H.R.
(1986) Software psychology: The need for an interdisciplinary program.
Proceedings of the IEEE, 74, 1092-1106.
Cunniff, N., Taylor, R. P. and Black, J.B. (1986) Does programming language affect the
types of conceptual bugs in novices’ programs? A comparison of FPL and Pascal.
In M. Mantei and P. Oberton (Ed.) Human Factors in Computing Systems. NY:
ACM.
Black, J.B., Kay, D.M. and Soloway, E.M. (1987) Goal and plan knowledge
representations. In J.M. Carroll (Ed.) Interfacing thought. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
Black, J.B., Carroll. J.M. and McGuigan, S.M. (1987) What kind of minimal instruction
manual is the most effective. In P. Tanner and J.M. Carroll (Eds.) Human factors
in computing systems and graphic interface. NY: ACM.
Black, J.B., Swan, K. and Schwartz, D. (1988) Developing thinking skills with
computers. Teachers College Record, 89, 384-407.
Robertson, S.P., Zachery, W.A. and Black, J.B. (Ed.) Cognition, computing and
cooperation. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1990.
Kay, D. and Black, J.B. (1990) Knowledge transformations during the acquisition of
computer expertise. In S. Robertson, W. Zachery and J. Black (Eds.) Cognition,
computing and cooperation. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Thallheimer, W., Wilder, H., deSoto, D. and Black, J.B. (1992) Multiple feedback
mechanisms in a business simulation. In M.R. Simonson and K. Jurasek (Eds.)
Proceedings of selected research and development presentations at the 1992
national conventionof AECT. Washington, DC: AECT.
Thalheimer, W., Wilder, H., deSoto, D. and Black, J.B. (1992) Hierarchically anchored
educational systems: Simulations, simulation experiences and the bigger program.
In M.R. Simonson and K. Jurasek (Eds.) Proceedings of selected research and
development presentations at the 1992 national convention of AECT.
Washington, DC: AECT.
Rosenthal, L. and Black, J.B. (1993) Building blocks to literacy: An intergenerational
approach using hypermedia. In N. Estes and M. Thomas (Eds.) Rethinking the
roles of technology in education Cambridge, MA: MIT.
Swan, K. and Black, J.B. (1993) Knowledge-based instruction: Teaching problem solving
in a Logo learning environment. Interactive Learning Environments, 3, 17-53.
Black, J.B., McClintock, R.O. and Hill, C. (1994) Assessing student understanding in
constructivist study environments. In M.R.Simonson, N. Maushak,
K. Abu-Omar (Eds.) 16th Annual Proceedings of Selected Research and
Development Presentations at the 1994 National Convention of the
Association for Educational Communications and Technology. Washington, DC:
AECT.
Black, J.B. Thalheimer, W., Wilder H., deSoto, D. and Picard, P. (1994) Constructivist
design of graphic computer simulations. In M.R.Simonson, N. Maushak,
K. Abu-Omar (Eds.) Proceedings of the Selected Research and Development
Presentations at the 1994 National Convention of the Association for Educational
Communication and Technology. Washington, DC: AECT.
Black, J.B., Schiff, J., McClintock, R.O. and van Esselstyn, D. (1995) Student
understanding and learning from an interpretation construction design. In M.R.
Simonson (Ed.) 17th Annual Proceedings of Selected Research and
Development Presentations at the 1995 National Convention of the
Association for Educational Communication and Technology. Washington, DC:
AECT.
Black, J.B., Dimaraki, E., van Esselstyn, and R. Flanagan (1995) Using a knowledge
representation approach to cognitive task analysis. In M.R. Simonson (Ed.) 17th
Annual Proceedings of Selected Research and Development Presentations at the
1995 National Convention of the Association for Educational Communication and
Technology. Washington, DC: AECT.
Black, J.B. and McClintock, R.O. (1996) An interpretation construction approach to
constructivist design. In B. Wilson (Ed.), Constructivist learning environments.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.
Schwartz, D.L. and Black, J.B. (1996) Analog imagery in mental model reasoning:
Depictive models. Cognitive Psychology, 30, 154-219.
Schwartz, D.L. and Black, J.B. (1996) Shuttling between depictive models and abstract
rules. Cognitive Science. 20, 457-497.
Flanagan, R. and Black, J.B. (1997) The effects of TV on persistence. In K. Swan (Ed.)
Television and social learning. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
Dimaraki, E., Black, J.B. and Brown, M.K. (1998) What pedagogy for the age of
abundant information? Lessons from Archaeotype. Educational Media
International, 181-185.
Dimaraki, E., Black, J.B. and Brown, M.K. (2000) What pedagogy for the age of
abundant information? Lessons from Archaeotype. Annual Editions: Computers
in Education, 9, 146-151.
Kuhn, D., Black, J.B., Kesselman, A. and Kaplan, D. (2000) The development of
cognitive skills to support inquiry learning. Cognition and Instruction, 18,
495-523.
Kaplan, D. & Black, J. (2001). Computer-based Tools for the Development and
Investigation of Mental Model Reasoning about Causal Systems.
In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia
and Telecommunications 2001 (pp. 879-881). Chesapeake, VA: AACE
Hachey, A., Tsuei, L. & Black, J. (2001). Fostering Mental-Model Thinking During
Design. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2001 (pp. 636-642). Chesapeake, VA:
AACE.
Van Esselstyn, D.and Black, J. (2001) Learning through Interactive Panoramic Imagery.
In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia
and Telecommunications 2001 (pp. 1547-1563). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Hachey, A., Black, J. & Zahner, D. (2002). Learning Activities Collaborative.
In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia
and Telecommunications 2002 (pp. 2136-2138). Chesapeake, VA: AACE
Hachey, A. and Black, J. (2003) Initial misconceptions of novice online learners and the
implications for supportive instructional design. In Proceedings of
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications 2003 (pp. 1713-1718). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Malinow, A. & Black, J. (2003). Teaching How to Solve Proportion Word Problems
Using a Multiple Linked Representational Software System. In Proceedings of
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications 2003 (pp. 2725-2732). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Kaplan, D.E. and Black, J.B. (2003) Mental models and computer-based scientific inquiry
learning: Effects of mechanism cues on adolescent representation and reasoning
about causal Systems. Journal of Science Education and Technology, vol. 12, no
4, 483-493.
Bai, X. & Black, J. (2004). TALE: a Teachable Agent Embedded in an Intelligent
Tutoring System. In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on
E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education
2004 (pp. 1070-1072). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Youm, J. & Black, J. (2004). The Potential for an Object-Oriented Model of Learning.
In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in
Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2004
(pp. 1583-1586). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Chan, M. & Black, J. (2005). When can animation improve learning? Some
implications on human computer interaction and learning. In Proceedings of
World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 933-938). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Bai, X., Saravanos, A. & Black, J. (2005). REAL: Facilitate Thinking in an
Object-oriented Way. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational
Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 3383-3387).
Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Bai, X. & Black, J. (2005). REAL: a Generic Intelligent Tutoring System Framework.
In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information
Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2005
(pp. 1279-1283). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Lester, K., Gilutz, S. & Black, J. (2005). Methodology for analyzing Children’s
understanding of computer Interfaces. In Proceedings of World Conference on
Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005
(pp. 1263-1268). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
McVeigh, D. & Black, J. (2005). How Animations and Live-Networked Video Link
Coupled With Hands-on Building Activities Improve Student Learning By
Assisting in the Creation of Clear Mental Models. In P. Kommers & G. Richards
(Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia,
Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 4436-4442). Chesapeake, VA:
AACE.
Youm, J. & Black, J. (2005). Object-Oriented Thinking for Mental Model Development.
In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia
and Telecommunications 2005 (pp. 3377-3382). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Chan, M.S. and Black, J.B. (2006) The role of presentation format on mental model
acquisition. In S.A.. Barab, K.E. Hay and D.T. Hickey (Eds.) Making a
difference: The Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of the
Learning Sciences. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Kapur, M., Voiklis, J., Kinzer, C. K., & Black, J. (2006). Insights into the Emergence of
Convergence in Group Discussions. In S. Barab, K. E. Hay, N. B. Songer, & D. T.
Hickey (Eds.). Making a Difference: Volume (pp. 962-971). The Proceedings of the
Seventh International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS). Mahwah, NJ:
Erlbaum.
Voiklis, J., Kapur, M., Kinzer, C. K., & Black, J. (2006). An Emergentist Account of
Collective Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving. In R. Sun & N. Miyake
(Eds.). Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(pp. 858-863). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Black, J.B. (2007) Imaginary Worlds. In. M.A. Gluck, J.R. Anderson and S.M. Kosslyn
(Eds.) Memory and mind. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Bai, X., Black, J.B. and Vitale, J. (2007) Learning with the assistance of a reflective
agent. In R. Axtell, G. Fagiolo, S. Kurihara, H. Nakashima and A. Namatame
(Eds.) Agent-Based Systems for Human Learning and Entertainment. New York;
Association for Computing Machinery.
Chan, M., Black, J., Han, I., Vitale, J., Xia, Q., Subramanian, M., Du, M. & Kang,
(2007) "Look, it's turning!" Factors Affecting Structural and Functional Knowledge
Acquistion in an Elementary School Robotics Classroom. In C. Montgomerie & J. Seale
(Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and
Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 1626-1631). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Jang, S., Black, J.B. and Jyung, R.W. (2007) How direct interaction in a virtual reality
program aids in developing an internal representation of a complex 3-D
structure. . In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th
Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1778-1784). Austin, TX: Cognitive
Science Society.
Jang, S., Jyung, R. & Black, J. (2007). How direct interaction in a virtual reality
program aids in developing an internal representation of a complex 3-D structure.
In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia
and Telecommunications 2007 (pp. 4214-4218). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Park, Y. and Black, J.B. (2007) Identifying the impact of domain knowledge and
cognitive style on web-based information search behavior. Journal of
Educational Computing Research, 38, 15-37.
Youm, J.H. and Black, J.B. (2007) Exploring how agents-based modeling and culture
affects children’s understanding of complex systems. In D. S. McNamara & J. G.
Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp.
1890-1896). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Youm, J. & Black, J. (2007). Exploring how agents-based modeling and culture
affects children’s understanding of complex systems. In Proceedings of World
Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications
2007 (pp. 3096-3101). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Cameron L. Fadjo, Jiwon Shin, Ming-Tsan P. Lu, John B. Black, Margaret Chan (2008)
Embodied and video game programming. In Proceedings of World Conference
on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2008
(pp. 2156-2161). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
McVeigh, D., Black, J. & Flimlin, G. (2008). How System Simulations Improve Student
Learning by Assisting in the Creation of Clear Mental Models. In K. McFerrin et
al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher
Education International Conference 2008 (pp. 1767-1773). Chesapeake, VA:
AACE.
Zahner, D. & Black, J. (2008). Case-Based learning with diagnosis and repair.
In G. Richards (Ed.), Proceedings of World Conference on E-Learning in
Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2008 (pp. 15831588). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.
Chan, M. and Black, J.B. (2008) The role of mental simulation and embodied instruction
In promoting understanding of robotic systems. In In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V.
M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive
Science Society (pp. 64-70). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pp.13421348).
Hammer, J. and Black, J. (in press) Games and (preparation for future) learning.
Educational Technology.
Black, J. (in press) Learning from video games. Future of Children.
Black, J. (in press) An embodied/grounded cognition perspective on educational
Technology. In Issa Saleh (Ed.) New science of learning: Cognition
computers and collaboration in education. Springer Publishing.