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47
Citations
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3247
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1564

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Andrea A. diSessa is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans several disciplines including social sciences, computer science, and psychology, with particular focus on education and developmental psychology as well as applications in computer science.

The scientist's work includes contributions to areas such as innovative teaching and learning methods, teaching and learning of programming, science education and pedagogy, educational strategies and epistemologies, child development and digital technology, computability, logic, AI algorithms, and evolutionary algorithms and applications.

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • Journal for STEM Education Research
  • Human Development
  • Computers in Human Behavior
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Proceedings.

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Andrea A. diSessa are:

  • "Computational Thinking Is More about Thinking than Computing" (2020) in Journal for STEM Education Research
  • "On Computational Thinking and STEM Education" (2020) in Journal for STEM Education Research
  • "Conceptual Change and Developmental Teaching: Comment on Gennen" (2023) in Human Development
  • "Learning about abstract systems: Understanding children's journey in grasping internet principles across age groups in a mixed-methods experimental study" (2025) in Computers in Human Behavior
  • "Promoting Digital Transformation in STEM Education and Beyond" (2025) in Journal for STEM Education Research

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Yeping Li, Arthur C. Graesser, Alan H. Schoenfeld, Lisa Benson, and Lyn D. English.

Andrea A. diSessa has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association since 2008.

Best Publications

  • Design Experiments in Educational Research

    Paul Cobb;Jere Confrey;Andrea diSessa;Richard Lehrer

  • Misconceptions Reconceived: A Constructivist Analysis of Knowledge in Transition

    John P. Smith;Andrea A. diSessa;Jeremy Roschelle

  • Toward an Epistemology of Physics

    Andrea A. diSessa

  • Changing Minds: Computers, Learning, and Literacy

    Andrea A. diSessa

  • What changes in conceptual change

    Andrea A. diSessa;Bruce L. Sherin

  • Knowledge in Pieces

    Andrea A. diSessa

  • Ontological Innovation and the Role of Theory in Design Experiments

    Andrea A. diSessa;Paul Cobb

  • Unlearning Aristotelian physics: a study of knowledge-based learning

    Andrea A. DiSessa

  • Metarepresentation: Native Competence and Targets for Instruction.

    Andrea A. diSessa

  • Turtle Geometry: The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics

    Harold Abelson;Andrea A. DiSessa

  • Coherence versus fragmentation in the development of the concept of force

    Andrea A. diSessa;Nicole M. Gillespie;Jennifer B. Esterly

  • Turtle Geometry

    Andrea diSessa;Hal Abelson

  • Meta-representation: an introduction

    Andrea A diSessa;Bruce L Sherin

  • Boxer: a reconstructible computational medium

    A. A diSessa;H. Abelson

  • Turtle Geometry. The Computer as a Medium for Exploring Mathematics.

    George K. Francis;Harold Abelson;Andrea diSessa

  • Design and Design Thinking in STEM Education

    Yeping Li;Alan H. Schoenfeld;Andrea A. diSessa;Arthur C. Graesser

  • Why “Conceptual Ecology” is a Good Idea

    Andrea A. Disessa

  • Computational Thinking Is More about Thinking than Computing

    Yeping Li;Alan H Schoenfeld;Andrea A diSessa;Arthur C Graesser

  • A History of Conceptual Change Research

    Andrea A. diSessa

  • A principled design for an integrated computational environment

    Andrea A. diSessa

  • A History of Conceptual Change Research

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Frequent Co-Authors

Alan H. Schoenfeld
Alan H. Schoenfeld University of California, Berkeley
Lyn D. English
Lyn D. English Queensland University of Technology
Arthur C. Graesser
Arthur C. Graesser University of Memphis
Paul Cobb
Paul Cobb Vanderbilt University
David Hammer
David Hammer Tufts University
Celia Hoyles
Celia Hoyles University College London
Richard Noss
Richard Noss University College London
Jeremy Roschelle
Jeremy Roschelle Digital Promise
Jacqueline J. Goodnow
Jacqueline J. Goodnow Macquarie University
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University

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