Resources

1. Coulson, R. L. , Feltovich, P. J., & Spiro, R. J. (1997) “Cognitive Flexibility in medicine: An application to the recognition and understanding of hypertension.” Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2, 141-61.
2. Graddy, D. B. (2001). Cognitive flexibility theory as a pedagogy for web-based course design. Retrieved on April 18, 2007. Available online at http://www.ipfw.edu/as/tohe/2001/Papers/graddy/graddy.htm
3. Feltovich, P. J., Coulson, R. L., Spiro, R. J., and Dawson-Saunders, B. K. (1992).
   Knowledge application and transfer for complex tasks in ill-structured domains: implications for instruction and testing in biomedicine. In Evans, D. A. and Patel, V. L., editors, Advanced Models of Cognition for Medical Training and Practice, pages 213-244. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Advanced Models of Cognition for Medical Training and Practice held at Il Ciocco, Barga, Italy June 19-22 1991.
4. Jonassen, D., Ambruso, D . & Olesen, J. (1992). Designing hypertext on transfusion medicine using cognitive flexibility theory. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 1(3), 309-322.
5. Jonassen, D., Dyer, D., Peters, K., Robinson, T., Harvey, D., King, M., & Loughner, P. (1997). Cognitive flexibility hypertext on the Web: Engaging learners in meaning making, B. Khan, Web-Based Instruction. Englewood, Cliffs, N.J.: Educational Technology Publishing.
6. Spiro, R.J., Coulson, R.L., Feltovich, P.J., & Anderson, D. (1988). Cognitive flexibility theory: Advanced knowledge acquisition in ill-structured domains. In V. Patel (ed.), Proceedings of the 10th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
7. Spiro, R.J., Feltovich, P.J., Jacobson, M.J., & Coulson, R.L. (1992 & 1995). Cognitive flexibility, constructivism and hypertext: Random access instruction for advanced knowledge acquisition in ill-structured domains. In T. Duffy & D. Jonassen (Eds.), Constructivism and the Technology of Instruction. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
8. Spiro, R.J., Feltovich, P.J., Jacobson, M.J., & Coulson, R.L. (1991). Knowledge representation, content specification, and the development of skill in situation-specific knowledge assembly: Some constructivist issues as they relate to cognitive flexibility theroy and hypertext. Educational Technology, 31(9), 22-25.
9. Spiro, R.J. & Jehng, J. (1990). Cognitive flexibility and hypertext: Theory and technology for the non-linear and multidimensional traversal of complex subject matter. D. Nix & R. Spiro (eds.), Cognition, Education, and Multimedia. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
10. Spiro, R., Vispoel, W., & Schmitz, J. (1987). Knowledge acquisition for application: Cognitive flexibility and transfer in complex content domains,” B. B. A. S. Glynn, Readings in Executive Control Process. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
11. Spiro, R. J., Vispoel, W. L., Schmitz, J. G., Samarapungavan, A., and Boerger, A. E. (1987). Knowledge acquisition for application: cognitive flexibility and transfer in complex content domains. In B.C. Britton & S. Glynn (Eds.), Executive Control Processes in Reading. Hillsdale, N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. (PDF, 883KB)
12. Roy, M. H. (2001). Small group communication and performance: do cognitive flexibility and context matter?. Management Decision, 30 (4), 323-330.
13. Roy, M. H., & Dugal, S. S., (1998). Developing trust: the importance of cognitive flexibility and co-operative contexts. Management Decision, 36 (9), 561-567.