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Stella Vosniadou

Stella Vosniadou

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Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
23728
World Ranking
3952
National Ranking
209

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Member of Academia Europaea
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Stella Vosniadou is affiliated with Flinders University in Australia and conducts research primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their work focuses heavily on Developmental and Educational Psychology as well as Education, with additional contributions to Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Statistics and Probability.

The main topics explored in their research include Educational Strategies and Epistemologies, Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods, Education and Critical Thinking Development, Science Education and Pedagogy, Online and Blended Learning, Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes, and Education and Technology Integration.

Several recent papers authored by Stella Vosniadou illustrate the focus of their research:

  • "Beliefs about the self-regulation of learning predict cognitive and metacognitive strategies and academic performance in pre-service teachers" (2021) published in Metacognition and Learning
  • "Bridging Secondary and Higher Education. The Importance of Self-regulated Learning" (2020) published in European Review
  • "Students' Misconceptions and Science Education" (2020) published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education
  • "Theory of Mind, Personal Epistemology, and Science Learning: Exploring Common Conceptual Components" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The promotion of self-regulated learning in the classroom: a theoretical framework and an observation study" (2024) published in Metacognition and Learning

Frequent co-authors with whom Stella Vosniadou has collaborated include:

  • Michael J. Lawson (8 collaborations)
  • I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan (5 collaborations)
  • Helen Stephenson (5 collaborations)
  • Penny Van Deur (4 collaborations)
  • David Jeffries (4 collaborations)

The primary venues where Stella Vosniadou's work is published include Metacognition and Learning, Teaching and Teacher Education, Frontiers in Psychology, European Review, and British Journal of Educational Psychology. The highest number of publications appear in Metacognition and Learning and Teaching and Teacher Education.

The researcher's recognition includes appointment as a Member of Academia Europaea in 2016 and being named a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Mental Models of the Earth: A Study of Conceptual Change in Childhood

    Stella Vosniadou;William F Brewer

  • Capturing and modeling the process of conceptual change.

    Stella Vosniadou;Stella Vosniadou

  • Similarity and analogical reasoning

    Stella Vosniadou;Andrew Ortony

  • International handbook of research on conceptual change

    Stella Vosniadou

  • Mental models of the day/night cycle☆

    Stella Vosniadou;William F. Brewer

  • Theories of Knowledge Restructuring in Development

    Stella Vosniadou;William F. Brewer

  • Designing learning environments to promote conceptual change in science

    Stella Vosniadou;Christos Ioannides;Aggeliki Dimitrakopoulou;Efi Papademetriou

  • The Framework Theory Approach to the Problem of Conceptual Change

    Stella Vosniadou

  • The development of students’ understanding of the numerical value of fractions

    Stamatia Stafylidou;Stella Vosniadou

  • From conceptual development to science education: a psychological point of view

    Stella Vosniadou;Christos Ioannides

  • On the Nature of Naïve Physics

    Stella Vosniadou

  • Mental Models of the Day/Night Cycle

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  • Understanding the structure of the set of rational numbers: a conceptual change approach

    Xenia Vamvakoussi;Stella Vosniadou

  • Children and Metaphors.

    Stella Vosniadou

  • Conceptual change and education

    Stella Vosniadou

  • The Cognitive-Situative Divide and the Problem of Conceptual Change

    Stella Vosniadou

  • Exploring the Relationships Between Conceptual Change and Intentional Learning

    Stella Vosniadou

  • The changing meanings of force

    Christos Ionnides;Stella Vosniadou

  • Analogical reasoning as a mechanism in knowledge acquisition: a developmental perspective

    Stella Vosniadou

  • New Perspectives on Conceptual Change

    Wolfgang Schnotz;Stella Vosniadou;Mario Carretero

  • Similarity and analogical reasoning: a synthesis

    Stella Vosniadou;Andrew Ortony

  • Similarity and Analogical Reasoning

    Stephen K. Reed;Stella Vosniadou;Andrew Ortony

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew Ortony
Andrew Ortony Northwestern University
William F. Brewer
William F. Brewer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Henny P. A. Boshuizen
Henny P. A. Boshuizen The Open University
Stellan Ohlsson
Stellan Ohlsson University of Illinois at Chicago
Jacqueline J. Goodnow
Jacqueline J. Goodnow Macquarie University
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Susan Carey
Susan Carey Harvard University
Mary Hegarty
Mary Hegarty University of California, Santa Barbara

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