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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Brian J. Reiser is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a focus on Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology. The subfields of their work include Education, Computer Science Applications, Information Systems, and Speech and Hearing.

The main topics explored in Brian J. Reiser's research focus on Science Education and Pedagogy, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, Education and Technology Integration, Education and Critical Thinking Development, Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques, as well as Open Education and E-Learning.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Brian J. Reiser include:

  • William R. Penuel
  • Jason Y. Buell
  • Jessica L. Alzen
  • Kelsey Edwards
  • Cynthia Passmore

Their publications have appeared regularly in several venues, including:

  • Journal of Science Teacher Education
  • Journal of Research in Science Teaching
  • Proceedings.
  • Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research
  • Cognition and Instruction

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Brian J. Reiser are:

  • Storyline Units: An Instructional Model to Support Coherence from the Students' Perspective (2021), published in Journal of Science Teacher Education
  • Developing Research-Based Instructional Materials to Support Large-Scale Transformation of Science Teaching and Learning: The Approach of the OpenSciEd Middle School Program (2021), Journal of Science Teacher Education
  • Connecting student interests and questions with science learning goals through project-based storylines (2022), Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Science Education Research
  • Learning Practical Design Knowledge through Co-Designing Storyline Science Curriculum Units (2022), Cognition and Instruction
  • Characterizing relationships between collective enterprise and student epistemic agency in science: A comparative case study (2022), Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Brian J. Reiser was recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Intelligent tutoring systems

    John R. Anderson;C. Franklin Boyle;Brian J. Reiser

  • Policy Implementation and Cognition: Reframing and Refocusing Implementation Research

    James P Spillane;Brian J Reiser;Todd Reimer

  • Developing a learning progression for scientific modeling: Making scientific modeling accessible and meaningful for learners

    Christina V. Schwarz;Brian J. Reiser;Elizabeth A. Davis;Lisa Kenyon

  • Scaffolding Complex Learning: The Mechanisms of Structuring and Problematizing Student Work

    Brian J. Reiser

  • Visual images preserve metric spatial information: Evidence from studies of image scanning.

    Stephen M. Kosslyn;Thomas M. Ball;Brian J. Reiser

  • A Scaffolding Design Framework for Software to Support Science Inquiry

    Chris Quintana;Brian J. Reiser;Elizabeth A. Davis;Joseph Krajcik

  • Explanation-Driven Inquiry: Integrating Conceptual and Epistemic Scaffolds for Scientific Inquiry

    William A. Sandoval;Brian J. Reiser

  • Making sense of argumentation and explanation

    Leema Kuhn Berland;Brian J. Reiser

  • Taking science to school: Learning and teaching science in grades K-8. Committee on Science Learning, Kindergarten through 8th grade: National Research Council, Board on Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Brian Reiser;Richard A. Duschl;Heidi A. Schweingruber;Andrew W. Shouse

  • Learning‐goals‐driven design model: Developing curriculum materials that align with national standards and incorporate project‐based pedagogy

    Joseph Krajcik;Katherine L. McNeill;Brian J. Reiser

  • Epistemologies in practice: Making scientific practices meaningful for students

    Leema K. Berland;Christina V. Schwarz;Christina Krist;Lisa Kenyon

  • Effective Tutoring Techniques: A Comparison of Human Tutors and Intelligent Tutoring Systems

    Douglas C. Merrill;Brian J. Reiser;Michael Ranney;J. Gregory Trafton

  • Knowledge structures in the organization and retrieval of autobiographical memories

    Brian J Reiser;John B Black;Robert P Abelson

  • Classroom communities' adaptations of the practice of scientific argumentation

    Leema K. Berland;Brian J. Reiser

  • Cognitive principles in the design of computer tutors

    J R Anderson;C F Boyle;R Farrell;B J Reiser

  • Reasoning across Ontologically Distinct Levels: Students' Understandings of Molecular Genetics.

    Ravit Golan Duncan;Brian J. Reiser

  • Some Empirical Justification for a Theory of Natural Propositional Logic

    Martin D.S. Braine;Brian J. Reiser;Barbara Rumain

  • Tutoring: Guided Learning by Doing

    Douglas C. Merrill;Brian J. Reiser;Shannon K. Merrill;Shari Landes

  • Dynamic student modelling in an intelligent tutor for LISP programming

    Brian J. Reiser;John R. Anderson;Robert G. Farrell

  • A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, crosscutting concepts, and core ideas: National Research Council, Board on Science Education, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education

    Brian Reiser

  • Autobiographical memory: Autobiographical Memory

    David C. Rubin

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Anderson
John R. Anderson Carnegie Mellon University
Joseph Krajcik
Joseph Krajcik Michigan State University
James P. Spillane
James P. Spillane Northwestern University
Katherine L. McNeill
Katherine L. McNeill Boston College
Susan McKenney
Susan McKenney University of Twente
Elizabeth A. Davis
Elizabeth A. Davis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John B. Troy
John B. Troy Northwestern University
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Stephen M. Kosslyn Harvard University
Susan R. Goldman
Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago
Martha J. Farah
Martha J. Farah University of Pennsylvania

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