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D-Index
36
Citations
16397
World Ranking
6317
National Ranking
3028

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Best Publications

  • Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning: A Response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006)

    Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver;Ravit Golan Duncan;Clark A. Chinn

  • The Role of Anomalous Data in Knowledge Acquisition: A Theoretical Framework and Implications for Science Instruction

    Clark A. Chinn;William F. Brewer

  • Epistemologically Authentic Inquiry in Schools: A Theoretical Framework for Evaluating Inquiry Tasks

    Clark A. Chinn;Betina A. Malhotra

  • Expanding the Dimensions of Epistemic Cognition: Arguments From Philosophy and Psychology

    Clark A. Chinn;Luke A. Buckland;Ala Samarapungavan

  • Patterns of discourse in two kinds of literature discussion.

    Clark A. Chinn;Richard C. Anderson;Martha A. Waggoner

  • An empirical test of a taxonomy of responses to anomalous data in science.

    Clark A. Chinn;William F. Brewer

  • The international handbook of collaborative learning

    Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver;Clark A. Chinn;Carol K.K. Chan;Angela M. O’Donnell

  • The Structure of Discourse in Collaborative Learning

    Clark A. Chinn;Angela M. O'donnell;Theresa S. Jinks

  • Children's Responses to Anomalous Scientific Data: How Is Conceptual Change Impeded?.

    Clark A. Chinn;Betina A. Malhotra

  • Learners' Epistemic Criteria for Good Scientific Models.

    William J. Pluta;Clark A. Chinn;Ravit Golan Duncan

  • The structure of discussions that promote reasoning

    Clark A. Chinn;Richard C. Anderson

  • Explanation in Scientists and Children

    William F. Brewer;Clark A. Chinn;Ala Samarapungavan

  • On the Logical Integrity of Children's Arguments

    Richard C. Anderson;Clark Chinn;Janice Chang;Martha Waggoner

  • Models of data: A theory of how people evaluate data

    Clark A. Chinn;William F. Brewer

  • On the Goals of Epistemic Education: Promoting Apt Epistemic Performance

    Sarit Barzilai;Clark A. Chinn

  • Intellectually stimulating story discussions.

    Richard C. Anderson;Clark Chinn;Martha Waggoner;Kim Nguyen

  • Epistemic cognition and evaluating information: Applying the AIR model of epistemic cognition.

    Clark A. Chinn;Ronald W. Rinehart;Luke A. Buckland

  • Imagining the impossible : magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children

    Karl Sven Rosengren;Carl N. Johnson;Paul L. Harris

  • A Review of Educational Responses to the "Post-Truth" Condition: Four Lenses on "Post-Truth" Problems.

    Sarit Barzilai;Clark A. Chinn

  • Grasp of evidence: Problematizing and expanding the next generation science standards' conceptualization of evidence

    Ravit Golan Duncan;Clark A. Chinn;Sarit Barzilai

  • Thinking and reasoning in science: Promoting epistemic conceptual change.

    Gale M. Sinatra;Clark A. Chinn

  • Education for a “Post-Truth” World: New Directions for Research and Practice

    Clark A. Chinn;Sarit Barzilai;Ravit Golan Duncan

  • Distinguishing between Understanding and Belief.

    Clark A. Chinn;Ala Samarapungavan

Frequent Co-Authors

Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver Indiana University
William F. Brewer
William F. Brewer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Frank Fischer
Frank Fischer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Richard C. Anderson
Richard C. Anderson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jonathan Osborne
Jonathan Osborne Stanford University
Richard A. Duschl
Richard A. Duschl Pennsylvania State University
Stella Vosniadou
Stella Vosniadou Flinders University
David Klahr
David Klahr Carnegie Mellon University
Gale M. Sinatra
Gale M. Sinatra University of Southern California
Jeffrey A. Greene
Jeffrey A. Greene University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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