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71
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707
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334

Norman G. Lederman publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Norman G. Lederman sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 233 publications — 75th percentile

75% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Norman G. Lederman D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Norman G. Lederman sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 71 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Norman G. Lederman was affiliated with the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, focusing notably on Education and Developmental and Educational Psychology as subfields.

The scientist's work covered multiple topics, including:

  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Education and Critical Thinking Development
  • Educational Research and Pedagogy
  • Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
  • Animal and Plant Science Education
  • Gender and Technology in Education

Lederman collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Judith S. Lederman, Çiğdem Han-Tosunoğlu, Carl-Johan Rundgren, Mariana Aparecida Bologna Soares de Andrade, and Jakob Gyllenpalm.

Their publications appeared regularly in key academic venues such as:

  • International Journal of Science Education
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Research in Science Education
  • Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
  • Teaching and Teacher Education

Major papers from the recent period include:

  • "A Comprehensive Review of Instruments Measuring Attitudes Toward Science" (2020), published in Research in Science Education
  • "International collaborative follow-up investigation of graduating high school students' understandings of the nature of scientific inquiry: is progress Being made?" (2021), published in International Journal of Science Education
  • "Views About Scientific Inquiry: A Study of Students' Understanding of Scientific Inquiry in Grade 7 and 12 in Sweden" (2021), published in Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research
  • "Investigating the development of secondary students' views about scientific inquiry" (2020), published in International Journal of Science Education
  • "Developing an instrument to assess pedagogical content knowledge for biological socioscientific issues" (2020), published in Teaching and Teacher Education

Norman G. Lederman received recognition in the form of fellowships:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), awarded in 2009
  • Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, awarded in 2010

Best Publications

  • Students' and teachers' conceptions of the nature of science: A review of the research

    Norman G. Lederman

  • Views of nature of science questionnaire: Toward valid and meaningful assessment of learners' conceptions of nature of science

    Norm G. Lederman;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Randy L. Bell;Renée S. Schwartz

  • Handbook of Research on Science Education

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  • Improving Science Teachers' Conceptions of Nature of Science: A Critical Review of the Literature.

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Norman G. Lederman

  • The nature of science and instructional practice: Making the unnatural natural

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Randy L. Bell;Norman G. Lederman

  • Developing views of nature of science in an authentic context: An explicit approach to bridging the gap between nature of science and scientific inquiry

    Reneé S. Schwartz;Norman G. Lederman;Barbara A. Crawford

  • Inquiry in science education: International perspectives

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Saouma Boujaoude;Richard Duschl;Norman G. Lederman

  • Teachers' Understanding of the Nature of Science and Classroom Practice: Factors That Facilitate or Impede the Relationship.

    Norman G. Lederman

  • Nature of Science: Past, Present, and Future

    Norman G. Lederman

  • The influence of history of science courses on students' views of nature of science

    Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Norman G. Lederman

  • Influence of a Reflective Explicit Activity-based Approach on Elementary Teachers' Conceptions of Nature of Science.

    Valarie L. Akerson;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick;Norman G. Lederman

  • Just do it? impact of a science apprenticeship program on high school students' understandings of the nature of science and scientific inquiry

    Randy L. Bell;Lesley M. Blair;Barbara A. Crawford;Norman G. Lederman

  • Understandings of the nature of science and decision making on science and technology based issues

    Randy L. Bell;Norman G. Lederman

  • Examining Pedagogical Content Knowledge

    Julie Gess-Newsome;Norman G. Lederman

  • Science teachers' conceptions of the nature of science: Do they really influence teaching behavior?

    Norman G. Lederman;Dana L. Zeidler

  • Nature of Science and Scientific Inquiry as Contexts for the Learning of Science and Achievement of Scientific Literacy

    Norman G. Lederman;Judith S. Lederman;Allison Antink

  • Students' Perceptions of Tentativeness in Science: Development, Use, and Sources of Change.

    Norman G. Lederman;Molly O'Malley

  • Assessment and Measurement of Pedagogical Content Knowledge

    Juliet A. Baxter;Norman G. Lederman

  • Avoiding De-Natured Science: Activities that Promote Understandings of the Nature of Science

    Norman Lederman;Fouad Abd-El-Khalick

  • It's the nature of the beast: The influence of knowledge and intentions on learning and teaching nature of science

    Reneé S. Schwartz;Norman G. Lederman

  • School Science and Mathematics 101

    Lawrence B. Flick;Norman G. Lederman

Frequent Co-Authors

Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
Fouad Abd-El-Khalick University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Per-Olof Wickman
Per-Olof Wickman Stockholm University
Dana L. Zeidler
Dana L. Zeidler University of South Florida
William F. McComas
William F. McComas University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Jari Lavonen
Jari Lavonen University of Helsinki
Michael R. Matthews
Michael R. Matthews University of New South Wales
Jeffrey John Loughran
Jeffrey John Loughran Monash University
Troy D. Sadler
Troy D. Sadler University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jan H. van Driel
Jan H. van Driel University of Melbourne
Richard A. Duschl
Richard A. Duschl Pennsylvania State University

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