What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Epistemology
- Social science
- Law
Gale M. Sinatra mostly deals with Epistemology, Conceptual change, Science education, Educational psychology and Mathematics education.
His Epistemology study incorporates themes from Cognitive development, Control, Cognitive science and Situated cognition.
The concepts of his Conceptual change study are interwoven with issues in Concept learning, Teaching method, Social psychology and Intervention.
His Science education research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Social science, Agency and Narrative.
His Educational psychology study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Science teaching and Operationalization.
His Mathematics education study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Reading comprehension and Comprehension.
His most cited work include:
- Reconceptalizing change in the cognitive construction of knowledge (480 citations)
- Intentional Conceptual Change (355 citations)
- Intentions and beliefs in students' understanding and acceptance of biological evolution (347 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
Gale M. Sinatra mainly focuses on Conceptual change, Epistemology, Social psychology, Mathematics education and Science education.
He usually deals with Conceptual change and limits it to topics linked to Cognitive psychology and Reading and Comprehension.
His studies in Epistemology integrate themes in fields like Educational psychology, Curiosity, Metacognition, Surprise and Teaching method.
The concepts of his Social psychology study are interwoven with issues in Knowledge level and Perception.
The Mathematics education study combines topics in areas such as Test and Pedagogy, Curriculum.
His study ties his expertise on Educational technology together with the subject of Science education.
He most often published in these fields:
- Conceptual change (39.58%)
- Epistemology (25.69%)
- Social psychology (25.00%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?
- Social psychology (25.00%)
- Conceptual change (39.58%)
- Epistemology (25.69%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
His primary areas of study are Social psychology, Conceptual change, Epistemology, Mathematics education and Science education.
Gale M. Sinatra has researched Social psychology in several fields, including Knowledge level and Action.
His Conceptual change study incorporates themes from Concept learning, Cognitive psychology, Attitude change, Social science and Self.
His studies in Epistemology integrate themes in fields like Surprise, Self-regulated learning, Curiosity and Field.
His Mathematics education study combines topics in areas such as Achievement test and Curriculum.
His Science education research incorporates elements of Educational technology, Evolutionary theory and Perception.
Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- The Challenges of Defining and Measuring Student Engagement in Science (238 citations)
- The curious case of climate change: Testing a theoretical model of epistemic beliefs, epistemic emotions, and complex learning (97 citations)
- Measuring emotions during epistemic activities: the Epistemically-Related Emotion Scales. (73 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social science
- Epistemology
- Law
Gale M. Sinatra mainly investigates Social psychology, Epistemology, Cognitive psychology, Curiosity and Credibility.
His studies deal with areas such as Knowledge level, Instructional design and Discourse analysis as well as Social psychology.
His Cognitive psychology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Conceptual change and Science education.
The various areas that he examines in his Conceptual change study include Concept learning, Value judgment and Cognitive science.
His research integrates issues of Contemporary society, Surprise, Boredom and Reading in his study of Curiosity.
His research in Credibility focuses on subjects like Comprehension, which are connected to Logical reasoning.
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