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60
Citations
16345
World Ranking
3500
National Ranking
1973

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Gale M. Sinatra is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States and has contributed extensively to social sciences with a focus on educational strategies, critical thinking development, and the impacts of misinformation. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including sociology and political science, education, developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, as well as computer vision and pattern recognition.

The scientist's research covers a range of main topics which include:

  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Augmented Reality Applications
  • Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Evolution and Science Education

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Gale M. Sinatra are:

  • Evaluating sources of scientific evidence and claims in the post-truth era may require reappraising plausibility judgments, 2020, Educational Psychologist
  • "Accepting Evolution Means You Can't Believe in God": Atheistic Perceptions of Evolution among College Biology Students, 2020, CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • Relationships between the Religious Backgrounds and Evolution Acceptance of Black and Hispanic Biology Students, 2020, CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • Promoting interest, positive emotions, and knowledge using augmented reality in a museum setting, 2021, International Journal of Science Education Part B
  • Growth mindset development in design-based makerspace: a longitudinal study, 2021, The Journal of Educational Research

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Gale M. Sinatra include:

  • Benjamin D. Nye
  • William Swartout
  • Emily Lindsey
  • Doug Lombardi
  • Panayiota Kendeou

The most common venues where Gale M. Sinatra publishes are:

  • Educational Psychologist
  • The Journal of Experimental Education
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • Abstracts with programs - Geological Society of America

In addition to journal articles, Gale M. Sinatra has contributed to book publications, including a title published by the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece: The COVID-19 vaccine communication handbook: A practical guide for improving vaccine communication and fighting misinformation (2021).

Recognition of Gale M. Sinatra's standing in the field includes being named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2009 and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2008.

Best Publications

  • The Challenges of Defining and Measuring Student Engagement in Science

    Gale M. Sinatra;Benjamin C. Heddy;Doug Lombardi

  • Reconceptalizing change in the cognitive construction of knowledge

    Janice A. Dole;Gale M. Sinatra

  • Intentions and beliefs in students' understanding and acceptance of biological evolution

    Gale M. Sinatra;Sherry A. Southerland;Frances McConaughy;James W. Demastes

  • Intentional Conceptual Change

    Gale M. Sinatra;Paul R. Pintrich

  • Revising Social Studies Text from a Text-Processing Perspective: Evidence of Improved Comprehensibility.

    Isabel L. Beck;Margaret G. McKeown;Gale M. Sinatra;Jane A. Loxterman

  • Addressing Challenges to Public Understanding of Science: Epistemic Cognition, Motivated Reasoning, and Conceptual Change

    Gale M. Sinatra;Dorothe Kienhues;Barbara K. Hofer

  • The Contribution of Prior Knowledge and Coherent Text to Comprehension.

    Margaret G. McKeown;Isabel L. Beck;Gale M. Sinatra;Jane A. Loxterman

  • The "Warming Trend" in Conceptual Change Research: The Legacy of Paul R. Pintrich

    Gale M. Sinatra

  • Developing a STEM Identity Among Young Women: A Social Identity Perspective:

    Ann Y. Kim;Gale M. Sinatra;Viviane Seyranian

  • Measuring emotions during epistemic activities: the Epistemically-Related Emotion Scales.

    Reinhard Pekrun;Elisabeth Vogl;Krista R. Muis;Gale M. Sinatra

  • Argument and conceptual engagement

    E.Michael Nussbaum;Gale M Sinatra

  • Belief, Knowledge, and Science Education

    Sherry A. Southerland;Gale M. Sinatra;Michael R. Matthews

  • Changing Minds? Implications of Conceptual Change for Teaching and Learning about Biological Evolution

    Gale M. Sinatra;Sarah K. Brem;E. Margaret Evans

  • The curious case of climate change: Testing a theoretical model of epistemic beliefs, epistemic emotions, and complex learning

    Krista R. Muis;Reinhard Pekrun;Gale M. Sinatra;Roger Azevedo

  • Role of Epistemic Beliefs and Scientific Argumentation in Science Learning

    E. Michael Nussbaum;Gale M. Sinatra;Anne Poliquin

  • Transforming Misconceptions: Using Transformative Experience to Promote Positive Affect and Conceptual Change in Students Learning about Biological Evolution.

    Benjamin C. Heddy;Gale M. Sinatra

  • Bridging Reading Comprehension and Conceptual Change in Science Education: The Promise of Refutation Text

    Gale M. Sinatra;Suzanne H. Broughton

  • Plausibility reappraisals and shifts in middle school students' climate change conceptions

    Doug Lombardi;Gale M. Sinatra;E. Michael Nussbaum

  • College Students' Perceptions About the Plausibility of Human-Induced Climate Change

    Doug Lombardi;Gale M. Sinatra

  • Views of knowledge acquisition and representation: A continuum from experience centered to mind..

    Ralph E. Reynolds;Gale M. Sinatra;Tamara L. Jetton

  • The role of intentions in conceptual change learning

    Gale M. Sinatra;Paul R. Pintrich

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Pekrun
Reinhard Pekrun Australian Catholic University
Krista R. Muis
Krista R. Muis McGill University
Philip H. Winne
Philip H. Winne Simon Fraser University
Lucia Mason
Lucia Mason University of Padua
Patricia A. Alexander
Patricia A. Alexander University of Maryland, College Park
Patricia H. Hawley
Patricia H. Hawley Texas Tech University
Panayiota Kendeou
Panayiota Kendeou University of Minnesota
Eric M. Anderman
Eric M. Anderman The Ohio State University
David N. Rapp
David N. Rapp Northwestern University
Karl S. Rosengren
Karl S. Rosengren University of Wisconsin–Madison

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