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D-Index
66
Citations
35847
World Ranking
932
National Ranking
440

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1990 - Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Lauren B. Resnick is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans several main fields, including Social Sciences and Psychology, with notable subfields in Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Social Psychology.

The primary focus of their work lies in the education domain, covering topics such as Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Education and Technology Integration, Parental Involvement in Education, and Communication in Education and Healthcare.

Resnick's recent publications include:

  • Efficacy of video-based teacher professional development for increasing classroom discourse and student learning, 2020, Journal of the Learning Sciences
  • The link between student-perceived teacher talk and student enjoyment, anxiety and discursive engagement in the classroom, 2020, British Educational Research Journal

Their work has appeared in frequent publication venues such as:

  • Journal of the Learning Sciences
  • British Educational Research Journal

Frequent collaborators in Resnick's research include:

  • Gaowei Chen
  • Carol K. K. Chan
  • Kennedy Kam Ho Chan
  • Sherice N. Clarke
  • Jiahong Zhang

Lauren B. Resnick has received several awards throughout their career, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013
  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, 2008
  • Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award, American Educational Research Association, 1990
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1981

Best Publications

  • The 1987 Presidential Address Learning In School and Out

    Lauren B. Resnick

  • Perspectives on Socially Shared Cognition

    Lauren B. Resnick;John M. Levine;Stephanie D. Teasley

  • Cognition and learning.

    James G. Greeno;Allan M. Collins;Lauren B. Resnick

  • Shared cognition: Thinking as social practice.

    Lauren B . Resnick

  • Assessing the Thinking Curriculum: New Tools for Educational Reform

    Lauren B. Resnick;Daniel P. Resnick

  • Knowing, learning, and instruction : essays in honor of Robert Glaser

    Lauren B. Resnick

  • Deliberative Discourse Idealized and Realized: Accountable Talk in the Classroom and in Civic Life

    Sarah Michaels;Catherine O’Connor;Lauren B. Resnick

  • Social Foundations of Cognition

    John M. Levine;Lauren B. Resnick;E. Tory Higgins

  • Psychology of Mathematics for Instruction

    Lauren B. Resnick;Wendy W. Ford

  • Toward the Thinking Curriculum: Current Cognitive Research. 1989 ASCD Yearbook.

    Lauren B. Resnick;Leopold E. Klopfer

  • Developing Principals as Instructional Leaders

    Elaine Fink;Lauren B. Resnick

  • Mathematics and science learning: a new conception.

    Lauren B. Resnick

  • Learning In School and Out

    Lauren B. Resnick

  • A Developmental Theory of Number Understanding.

    Lauren B. Resnick

  • The Nature of Literacy: An Historical Exploration.

    Daniel P. Resnick;Lauren B. Resnick

  • Developing mathematical knowledge.

    Lauren B. Resnick

  • Naive physics reasoning: A commitment to substance-based conceptions

    Miriam Reiner;James D. Slotta;Michelene T. H. Chi;Lauren B. Resnick

  • Conceptual Bases of Arithmetic Errors: The Case of Decimal Fractions.

    Lauren B. Resnick;Pearla Nesher;Francois Leonard;Maria Magone

  • Reasoning in Conversation

    Lauren B. Resnick;Merrilee Salmon;Colleen M. Zeitz;Sheila Haley Wathen

  • Theory and practice of early reading

    Lauren B. Resnick;Phyllis A. Weaver

  • Education and learning to think.

    Lauren B. Resnick

Frequent Co-Authors

James P. Spillane
James P. Spillane Northwestern University
Robert Glaser
Robert Glaser University of Pittsburgh
John M. Levine
John M. Levine University of Pittsburgh
James G. Greeno
James G. Greeno University of Pittsburgh
Roger Säljö
Roger Säljö University of Gothenburg
Allan Collins
Allan Collins Northwestern University
Alan M. Lesgold
Alan M. Lesgold University of Pittsburgh
Rochel Gelman
Rochel Gelman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Michelene T. H. Chi
Michelene T. H. Chi Arizona State University
E. Tory Higgins
E. Tory Higgins Columbia University

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