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D-Index
56
Citations
19726
World Ranking
4115
National Ranking
2302

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Barbara Schneider is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily within psychology, medicine, and social sciences. The main fields of study include psychology with 61 publications, medicine with 33, and social sciences with 32. Key subfields encompass clinical psychology, education, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and developmental and educational psychology.

The scientist's work covers a range of topics, including suicide and self-harm studies, innovative teaching and learning methods, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, problem and project-based learning, infant health and development, the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, and mental health treatment and access.

Barbara Schneider has contributed to several recent papers, notable for their focus on mental health and education:

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries (2021), published in The Lancet Psychiatry
  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries (2022), published in EClinicalMedicine
  • A Teacher-Researcher Partnership for Professional Learning: Co-Designing Project-Based Learning Units to Increase Student Engagement in Science Classes (2021), published in Journal of Science Teacher Education
  • High school students' situational engagement associated with scientific practices in designed science learning situations (2020), published in Science Education
  • Assessing the Effect of Project-Based Learning on Science Learning in Elementary Schools (2022), published in American Educational Research Journal

Frequent collaborators in their research include Joseph Krajcik, I-Chien Chen, Jari Lavonen, Katariina Salmela-Aro, and Mirja Quante.

Barbara Schneider has published numerous works in respected venues. Among the most frequent publication venues are Somnologie - Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin, Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde, Journal of Science Teacher Education, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, and Children.

Their book publications include titles under prominent publishers such as:

  • WSL-Berichte/WSL Berichte, with works including "Inventaire forestier national suisse. Manuel pour l'enquête auprès du service forestier dans le cadre du cinquième relevé 2018-2026" (2023) and "Schweizerisches Landesforstinventar. Anleitung für die Befragung der Forstdienste im Rahmen der fünften Erhebung 2018-2026" (2023)
  • Yale University Press, with the book "Learning Science" (2020)

Recognitions include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2014 and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2008.

Best Publications

  • Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for Improvement

    Anthony S. Bryk;Barbara Schneider

  • Trust in Schools: A Core Resource for School Reform.

    Anthony S. Bryk;Barbara Schneider

  • Student engagement in high school classrooms from the perspective of flow theory.

    David J. Shernoff;Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi;Barbara Schneider;Elisa Steele Shernoff

  • A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement.

    David S. Yeager;Paul Hanselman;Gregory M. Walton;Jared S. Murray

  • Becoming Adult How Teenagers Prepare For The World Of Work

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi;Barbara Schneider

  • Using Design Thinking to Improve Psychological Interventions: The Case of the Growth Mindset during the Transition to High School.

    David S. Yeager;Carissa Romero;Dave Paunesku;Christopher S. Hulleman

  • The ambitious generation : America's teenagers, motivated but directionless

    Barbara Schneider;David Stevenson

  • A Model for Academic Success: The School and Home Environment of East Asian Students.

    Barbara Schneider;Yongsook Lee

  • Suicide trends in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time-series analysis of preliminary data from 21 countries.

    Jane Pirkis;Ann John;Sangsoo Shin;Marcos DelPozo-Banos

  • Social Capital in Action: Alignment of Parental Support in Adolescents' Transition to Postsecondary Education

    Doo Hwan Kim;Barbara L. Schneider

  • Parents, Their Children, And Schools

    Barbara Schneider;James Samuel Coleman

  • Revisiting the Gender Gap in Time-Use Patterns: Multitasking and Well-Being among Mothers and Fathers in Dual-Earner Families

    Shira Offer;Barbara Schneider

  • Adolescents' Extracurricular Participation in Context: The Mediating Effects of Schools, Communities, and Identity.

    Andrew Guest;Barbara Schneider

  • Students on the Move: Residential and Educational Mobility in America's Schools.

    Christopher B. Swanson;Barbara Schneider

  • Opportunities For Learning: Course Sequences and Positional Advantages

    Barbara Schneider;Christopher B. Swanson;Catherine Riegle-Crumb

  • Elevated cytokine expression in the orbitofrontal cortex of victims of suicide

    Leonardo H. Tonelli;J. Stiller;J. Stiller;Dan Rujescu;Ina Giegling

  • Sequences of Opportunities for Learning.

    David Lee Stevenson;Kathryn S. Schiller;Barbara Schneider

  • Stress and working parents

    Barbara Schneider;Alisa M. Ainbinder;Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  • The Educational and Personal Consequences of Adolescent Employment

    Mark Schoenhals;Marta Tienda;Barbara Schneider

  • Student Engagement in High School Classrooms from the Perspective of Flow Theory

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  • Substance Use Disorders and Risk for Completed Suicide

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  • Handbook of Education Policy Research.

    Gary Sykes;Barbara Schneider;David N. Plank

  • Reducing Inequality in Academic Success for Incoming College Students: A Randomized Trial of Growth Mindset and Belonging Interventions

    Michael Broda;John Yun;Barbara Schneider;David S. Yeager

  • Suicide numbers during the first 9-15 months of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with pre-existing trends: An interrupted time series analysis in 33 countries

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  • Learning From Our Differences: A Dialogue Across Perspectives on Quality in Education Research:

    Pamela A. Moss;D. C. Phillips;Frederick D. Erickson;Robert E. Floden

  • The Ambitious Generation

    Barbara Schneider;David Stevenson

  • Impact of employment status and work-related factors on risk of completed suicide A case-control psychological autopsy study

    Barbara Schneider;Kristin Grebner;Axel Schnabel;Harald Hampel

  • Integrating the light and dark sides of student engagement using person-oriented and situation-specific approaches

    Katariina Salmela-Aro;Julia Moeller;Barbara Schneider;Justina Spicer

Frequent Co-Authors

Katariina Salmela-Aro
Katariina Salmela-Aro University of Helsinki
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Claremont Graduate University
David S. Yeager
David S. Yeager The University of Texas at Austin
Gregory M. Walton
Gregory M. Walton Stanford University
Robert Crosnoe
Robert Crosnoe The University of Texas at Austin
Linda J. Waite
Linda J. Waite University of Chicago
Carol S. Dweck
Carol S. Dweck Stanford University
Aprile D. Benner
Aprile D. Benner The University of Texas at Austin
Jacquelynne S. Eccles
Jacquelynne S. Eccles University of California, Irvine
Glen H. Elder
Glen H. Elder University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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