Gale M. Sinatra - Publications

Affiliations: 
Educational Psychology University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States 
Area:
Educational Psychology Education, Teacher Training Education

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2020 Barnes ME, Supriya K, Dunlop HM, Hendrix TM, Sinatra GM, Brownell SE. Relationships between the Religious Backgrounds and Evolution Acceptance of Black and Hispanic Biology Students. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 19: ar59. PMID 33215970 DOI: 10.1187/cbe.19-10-0197  0.338
2020 Barnes ME, Dunlop HM, Sinatra GM, Hendrix TM, Zheng Y, Brownell SE. "Accepting Evolution Means You Can't Believe in God": Atheistic Perceptions of Evolution among College Biology Students. Cbe Life Sciences Education. 19: ar21. PMID 32453675 DOI: 10.1187/Cbe.19-05-0106  0.431
2020 Thacker I, Sinatra GM, Muis KR, Danielson RW, Pekrun R, Winne PH, Chevrier M. Using persuasive refutation texts to prompt attitudinal and conceptual change. Journal of Educational Psychology. 112: 1085-1099. DOI: 10.1037/Edu0000434  0.396
2019 Dunk RDP, Barnes ME, Reiss MJ, Alters B, Asghar A, Carter BE, Cotner S, Glaze AL, Hawley PH, Jensen JL, Mead LS, Nadelson LS, Nelson CE, Pobiner B, Scott EC, ... ... Sinatra GM, et al. Evolution education is a complex landscape. Nature Ecology & Evolution. PMID 30718854 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-019-0802-9  0.646
2019 Thacker I, Sinatra G. Visualizing the Greenhouse Effect: Restructuring Mental Models of Climate Change Through a Guided Online Simulation Education Sciences. 9: 14. DOI: 10.3390/Educsci9010014  0.433
2019 Aguilar SJ, Polikoff MS, Sinatra GM. Refutation Texts: A New Approach to Changing Public Misconceptions About Education Policy Educational Researcher. 48: 263-272. DOI: 10.3102/0013189X19849416  0.37
2019 Flemming D, Kimmerle J, Cress U, Sinatra GM. Research is Tentative, but That’s Okay: Overcoming Misconceptions about Scientific Tentativeness through Refutation Texts Discourse Processes. 57: 17-35. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2019.1629805  0.366
2019 Matewos AM, Marsh JA, McKibben S, Sinatra GM, Le QT, Polikoff MS. Teacher learning from supplementary curricular materials: Shifting instructional roles Teaching and Teacher Education. 83: 212-224. DOI: 10.1016/J.Tate.2019.04.005  0.441
2019 Chevrier M, Muis KR, Trevors GJ, Pekrun R, Sinatra GM. Exploring the antecedents and consequences of epistemic emotions Learning and Instruction. 63: 101209. DOI: 10.1016/J.Learninstruc.2019.05.006  0.453
2019 Hawley PH, Sinatra GM. Declawing the dinosaurs in the science classroom: Reducing Christian teachers’ anxiety and increasing their efficacy for teaching evolution Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 56: 375-401. DOI: 10.1002/Tea.21479  0.327
2018 Kim AY, Sinatra GM. Science identity development: an interactionist approach. International Journal of Stem Education. 5: 51. PMID 30631740 DOI: 10.1186/S40594-018-0149-9  0.489
2018 Vongkulluksn VW, Matewos AM, Sinatra GM, Marsh JA. Motivational factors in makerspaces: a mixed methods study of elementary school students' situational interest, self-efficacy, and achievement emotions. International Journal of Stem Education. 5: 43. PMID 30631733 DOI: 10.1186/S40594-018-0129-0  0.439
2018 Kim AY, Sinatra GM, Seyranian V. Developing a STEM Identity Among Young Women: A Social Identity Perspective: Review of Educational Research. 88: 589-625. DOI: 10.3102/0034654318779957  0.343
2018 Polikoff M, Le QT, Danielson RW, Sinatra GM, Marsh JA. The Impact of Speedometry on Student Knowledge, Interest, and Emotions. Journal of Research On Educational Effectiveness. 11: 217-239. DOI: 10.1080/19345747.2017.1390025  0.397
2018 Muis KR, Sinatra GM, Pekrun R, Winne PH, Trevors G, Losenno KM, Munzar B. Main and moderator effects of refutation on task value, epistemic emotions, and learning strategies during conceptual change☆ Contemporary Educational Psychology. 55: 155-165. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cedpsych.2018.10.001  0.397
2017 Heddy BC, Sinatra GM, Seli H, Taasoobshirazi G, Mukhopadhyay A. Making learning meaningful: facilitating interest development and transfer in at-risk college students Educational Psychology. 37: 565-581. DOI: 10.1080/01443410.2016.1150420  0.472
2017 Sinatra GM, Mukhopadhyay A, Allbright TN, Marsh JA, Polikoff MS. Speedometry: A vehicle for promoting interest and engagement through integrated STEM instruction The Journal of Educational Research. 110: 308-316. DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2016.1273178  0.425
2017 Mason L, Baldi R, Di Ronco S, Scrimin S, Danielson RW, Sinatra GM. Textual and graphical refutations: Effects on conceptual change learning Contemporary Educational Psychology. 49: 275-288. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cedpsych.2017.03.007  0.496
2017 Trevors GJ, Muis KR, Pekrun R, Sinatra GM, Muijselaar MM. Exploring the relations between epistemic beliefs, emotions, and learning from texts Contemporary Educational Psychology. 48: 116-132. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cedpsych.2016.10.001  0.462
2016 Pekrun R, Vogl E, Muis KR, Sinatra GM. Measuring emotions during epistemic activities: the Epistemically-Related Emotion Scales. Cognition & Emotion. 1-9. PMID 27448030 DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1204989  0.363
2016 Alongi MD, Heddy BC, Sinatra GM. Real-world engagement with controversial issues in history and social studies: Teaching for transformative experiences and conceptual change Journal of Social Science Education. 15: 26-41. DOI: 10.2390/Jsse-V15-I2-1479  0.445
2016 Sinatra GM, Hofer BK. Public Understanding of Science Policy and Educational Implications Policy Insights From the Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 3: 245-253. DOI: 10.1177/2372732216656870  0.413
2016 Danielson RW, Sinatra GM, Kendeou P. Augmenting the Refutation Text Effect with Analogies and Graphics Discourse Processes. 53: 392-414. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2016.1166334  0.419
2016 Trevors GJ, Muis KR, Pekrun R, Sinatra GM, Winne PH. Identity and Epistemic Emotions During Knowledge Revision: A Potential Account for the Backfire Effect Discourse Processes. 53: 339-370. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2015.1136507  0.44
2016 Heddy BC, Danielson RW, Sinatra GM, Graham J. Modifying Knowledge, Emotions, and Attitudes Regarding Genetically Modified Foods The Journal of Experimental Education. 85: 513-533. DOI: 10.1080/00220973.2016.1260523  0.352
2016 Danielson RW, Sinatra GM. A Relational Reasoning Approach to Text-Graphic Processing Educational Psychology Review. 29: 55-72. DOI: 10.1007/S10648-016-9374-2  0.404
2015 Nussbaum EM, Owens MC, Sinatra GM, Rehmat AP, Cordova JR, Ahmad S, Harris FC, Dascalu SM. Losing the lake: Simulations to promote gains in student knowledge and interest about climate change International Journal of Environmental and Science Education. 10: 789-811. DOI: 10.12973/Ijese.2015.277A  0.462
2015 Lombardi D, Nussbaum EM, Sinatra GM. Plausibility Judgments in Conceptual Change and Epistemic Cognition Educational Psychologist. 1-22. DOI: 10.1080/00461520.2015.1113134  0.411
2015 Sinatra GM, Heddy BC, Lombardi D. The Challenges of Defining and Measuring Student Engagement in Science Educational Psychologist. 50. DOI: 10.1080/00461520.2014.1002924  0.513
2015 Muis KR, Pekrun R, Sinatra GM, Azevedo R, Trevors G, Meier E, Heddy BC. The curious case of climate change: Testing a theoretical model of epistemic beliefs, epistemic emotions, and complex learning Learning and Instruction. 39: 168-183. DOI: 10.1016/J.Learninstruc.2015.06.003  0.487
2014 Sinatra GM, Danielson RW. Adapting to a warmer climate of scientific communication Bioscience. 64: 275-276. DOI: 10.1093/Biosci/Biu023  0.511
2014 Lombardi D, Seyranian V, Sinatra GM. Source Effects and Plausibility Judgments When Reading About Climate Change Discourse Processes. 51: 75-92. DOI: 10.1080/0163853X.2013.855049  0.416
2014 Sinatra GM, Kienhues D, Hofer BK. Addressing Challenges to Public Understanding of Science: Epistemic Cognition, Motivated Reasoning, and Conceptual Change Educational Psychologist. 49: 123-138. DOI: 10.1080/00461520.2014.916216  0.423
2014 Johnson ML, Sinatra GM. The influence of approach and avoidance goals on conceptual change Journal of Educational Research. 107: 312-325. DOI: 10.1080/00220671.2013.807492  0.625
2014 Cordova JR, Sinatra GM, Jones SH, Taasoobshirazi G, Lombardi D. Confidence in prior knowledge, self-efficacy, interest and prior knowledge: Influences on conceptual change Contemporary Educational Psychology. 39: 164-174. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cedpsych.2014.03.006  0.412
2013 Beck A, Sinatra GM, Lombardi D. Leveraging Higher-Education Instructors in the Climate Literacy Effort: Factors Related to University Faculty’s Propensity to Teach Climate Change The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses. 4: 1-17. DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/Cgp/V04I04/37181  0.384
2013 Lombardi D, Sinatra GM, Nussbaum EM. Plausibility reappraisals and shifts in middle school students' climate change conceptions Learning and Instruction. 27: 50-62. DOI: 10.1016/J.Learninstruc.2013.03.001  0.46
2013 Johnson ML, Sinatra GM. Use of task-value instructional inductions for facilitating engagement and conceptual change Contemporary Educational Psychology. 38: 51-63. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cedpsych.2012.09.003  0.584
2013 Broughton SH, Sinatra GM, Nussbaum EM. "Pluto Has Been a Planet My Whole Life!" Emotions, Attitudes, and Conceptual Change in Elementary Students' Learning about Pluto's Reclassification Research in Science Education. 43: 529-550. DOI: 10.1007/S11165-011-9274-X  0.721
2013 Heddy BC, Sinatra GM. Transforming misconceptions: Using transformative experience to promote positive affect and conceptual change in students learning about biological evolution Science Education. 97: 723-744. DOI: 10.1002/Sce.21072  0.492
2013 Sinatra GM, Lombardi D. The Cognitive Science of Science: Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change, by Paul Thagard. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, USA, 2012. xii + 376 pp. ISBN 978-080-775-251-7. Science Education. 97: 637-639. DOI: 10.1002/Sce.21062  0.344
2012 Lombardi D, Sinatra GM. Emotions about Teaching about Human-Induced Climate Change International Journal of Science Education. DOI: 10.1080/09500693.2012.738372  0.421
2012 Anderman EM, Sinatra GM, Gray DL. The challenges of teaching and learning about science in the twenty-first century: exploring the abilities and constraints of adolescent learners Studies in Science Education. 48: 89-117. DOI: 10.1080/03057267.2012.655038  0.393
2012 Sinatra GM, Kardash CM, Taasoobshirazi G, Lombardi D. Promoting attitude change and expressed willingness to take action toward climate change in college students Instructional Science. 40: 1-17. DOI: 10.1007/S11251-011-9166-5  0.466
2012 Lombardi D, Sinatra GM. College Students' Perceptions About the Plausibility of Human-Induced Climate Change Research in Science Education. 42: 201-217. DOI: 10.1007/S11165-010-9196-Z  0.461
2011 Taasoobshirazi G, Sinatra GM. A structural equation model of conceptual change in physics Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 48: 901-918. DOI: 10.1002/Tea.20434  0.446
2011 Sinatra GM, Broughton SH. Bridging reading comprehension and conceptual change in science education: The promise of refutation text Reading Research Quarterly. 46: 374-393. DOI: 10.1002/Rrq.005  0.729
2010 Broughton SH, Sinatra GM, Reynolds RE. The nature of the refutation text effect: An investigation of attention allocation Journal of Educational Research. 103: 407-423. DOI: 10.1080/00220670903383101  0.72
2010 Hofer BK, Sinatra GM. Epistemology, metacognition, and self-regulation: Musings on an emerging field Metacognition and Learning. 5: 113-120. DOI: 10.1007/S11409-009-9051-7  0.374
2010 Bean TE, Sinatra GM, Schrader PG. Spore: Spawning Evolutionary Misconceptions? Journal of Science Education and Technology. 19: 409-414. DOI: 10.1007/S10956-010-9211-1  0.376
2010 Lombardi D, Sinatra GM. Students' plausibility perceptions of human-induced climate change Learning in the Disciplines: Icls 2010 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences. 2: 276-277.  0.325
2009 Nadelson LS, Sinatra GM. Educational professionals' knowledge and acceptance of evolution Evolutionary Psychology. 7: 490-516. DOI: 10.1177/147470490900700401  0.647
2008 Nussbaum EM, Sinatra GM, Poliquin A. Role of epistemic beliefs and scientific argumentation in science learning International Journal of Science Education. 30: 1977-1999. DOI: 10.1080/09500690701545919  0.726
2008 Sinatra GM, Brem SK, Evans EM. Changing Minds? Implications of Conceptual Change for Teaching and Learning about Biological Evolution Evolution: Education and Outreach. 1: 189-195. DOI: 10.1007/S12052-008-0037-8  0.529
2008 Muis KR, Sinatra GM. University cultures and epistemic beliefs: Examining differences between two academic environments Knowing, Knowledge and Beliefs: Epistemological Studies Across Diverse Cultures. 137-150. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6596-5_6  0.337
2005 Sinatra GM. The "warming trend" in Conceptual Change research: The legacy of Paul R. Pintrich Educational Psychologist. 40: 107-115. DOI: 10.1207/S15326985Ep4002_5  0.425
2004 Sinatra GM, Pintrich PR, Smith L. Intentionality in Conceptual Change and Constructivism The American Journal of Psychology. 117: 283. DOI: 10.2307/4149028  0.347
2004 Nussbaum EM, Hartley K, Sinatra GM, Reynolds RE, Bendixen LD. Personality interactions and scaffolding in on-line discussions Journal of Educational Computing Research. 30: 113-137. DOI: 10.2190/H8P4-Qjuf-Jxme-6Jd8  0.401
2004 Sinatra GM, Kardash CM. Teacher candidates' epistemological beliefs, dispositions, and views on teaching as persuasion Contemporary Educational Psychology. 29: 483-498. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cedpsych.2004.03.001  0.403
2003 Nussbaum EM, Sinatra GM. Argument and conceptual engagement Contemporary Educational Psychology. 28: 384-395. DOI: 10.1016/S0361-476X(02)00038-3  0.392
2003 Sinatra GM, Southerland SA, McConaughy F, Demastes JW. Intentions and beliefs in students' understanding and acceptance of biological evolution Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 40: 510-528. DOI: 10.1002/Tea.10087  0.484
2001 Southerland SA, Sinatra GM, Matthews MR. Belief, Knowledge, and Science Education Educational Psychology Review. 13: 325-351. DOI: 10.1023/A:1011913813847  0.426
1998 Dole JA, Sinatra GM. Reconceptualizing Change in the Cognitive Construction of Knowledge Educational Psychologist. 33: 109-128.  0.306
1996 Reynolds RE, Sinatra GM, Jetton TL. Views of knowledge acquisition and representation: A continuum from experience centered to mind.. Educational Psychologist. 31: 93-104. DOI: 10.1207/S15326985Ep3102_1  0.333
1996 Brown KJ, Sinatra GM, Wagstaff JM. Exploring the Potential of Analogy Instruction to Support Students' Spelling Development Elementary School Journal. 97. DOI: 10.1086/461850  0.464
1994 Royer JM, Sinatra GM. A cognitive theoretical approach to reading diagnostics Educational Psychology Review. 6: 81-113. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02208969  0.389
1993 Sinatra GM, Beck IL, McKeown MG. How knowledge influenced two interventions designed to improve comprehension Reading Psychology. 14: 141-163. DOI: 10.1080/027027193140203  0.348
1993 Sinatra GM, Royer JM. Development of Cognitive Component Processing Skills That Support Skilled Reading Journal of Educational Psychology. 85: 509-519. DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.85.3.509  0.429
1992 Sinatra GM, Beck IL, McKeown MG. A Longitudinal Characterization of Young Students’ Knowledge of Their Country’s Government American Educational Research Journal. 29: 633-661. DOI: 10.3102/00028312029003633  0.453
1991 Beck IL, McKeown MG, Sinatra GM, Loxterman JA. Revising Social Studies Text from a Text-Processing Perspective: Evidence of Improved Comprehensibility. Reading Research Quarterly. 26: 251. DOI: 10.2307/747763  0.489
1990 Royer JM, Marchant HG, Sinatra GM, Lovejoy DA. The Prediction of College Course Performance From Reading Comprehension Performance: Evidence for General and Specific Prediction Factors American Educational Research Journal. 27: 158-179. DOI: 10.3102/00028312027001158  0.343
1987 Royer JM, Abranovic WA, Sinatra GM. Using Entering Reading Comprehension Performance as a Predictor of Performance in College Classes Journal of Educational Psychology. 79: 19-26. DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.79.1.19  0.45
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