Benjamin C. Heddy

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
45 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Benjamin C. Heddy is a scholar working on Education, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benjamin C. Heddy has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Education, 18 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 17 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Benjamin C. Heddy's work include Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (11 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (9 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (8 papers). Benjamin C. Heddy is often cited by papers focused on Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (11 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (9 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (8 papers). Benjamin C. Heddy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Benjamin C. Heddy's co-authors include Gale M. Sinatra, Doug Lombardi, Louis S. Nadelson, Kui Xie, Robert Danielson, Gita Taasoobshirazi, Reinhard Pekrun, Krista R. Muis, Roger Azevedo and Gregory Trevors and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Computers & Education and Educational Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Benjamin C. Heddy

42 papers receiving 1.7k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Challenges of Defining and Measuring Student Engagement in Science

2015 659 citations Gale M. Sinatra, Benjamin C. Heddy et al. Educational Psychologist profile →
Transforming Misconceptions: Using Transformative Experience to Promote Positive Affect and Conceptual Change in Students Learning About Biological Evolution

2013 139 citations Benjamin C. Heddy, Gale M. Sinatra Science Education profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benjamin C. Heddy United States	18	980	672	443	418	263	45	1.8k
Corinne Zimmerman United States	16	999 1.0×	872 1.3×	251 0.6×	227 0.5×	213 0.8×	36	1.8k
Christa S. C. Asterhan Israel	24	1.2k 1.2×	978 1.5×	262 0.6×	131 0.3×	333 1.3×	65	1.9k
Stacy J. Priniski United States	18	809 0.8×	378 0.6×	594 1.3×	595 1.4×	206 0.8×	29	1.7k
Ala Samarapungavan United States	22	1.7k 1.7×	1.2k 1.8×	319 0.7×	271 0.6×	161 0.6×	38	2.2k
Ali H. Al‐Hoorie Saudi Arabia	23	703 0.7×	801 1.2×	671 1.5×	424 1.0×	135 0.5×	66	2.4k
Heidi A. Schweingruber United States	13	1.6k 1.6×	720 1.1×	188 0.4×	171 0.4×	166 0.6×	22	2.3k
Detlef Urhahne Germany	22	1.0k 1.0×	520 0.8×	388 0.9×	410 1.0×	107 0.4×	62	1.6k
Lisa Linnenbrink‐Garcia United States	8	655 0.7×	366 0.5×	607 1.4×	596 1.4×	125 0.5×	9	1.5k
Vaughan Prain Australia	31	2.5k 2.5×	1.5k 2.2×	332 0.7×	481 1.2×	273 1.0×	110	3.2k
Peggy Brickman United States	16	1.5k 1.6×	696 1.0×	363 0.8×	324 0.8×	82 0.3×	33	2.2k

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Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2025). Transdisciplinary inclusivity: strategies and implications for integrating students with disabilities in educational psychology research. Educational Psychologist. 60(3). 127–140. 3 indexed citations

Danielson, Robert, et al.. (2024). Conceptual contamination: Investigating the impact of misinformation on conceptual change and inoculation strategies. Journal of Research in Science Teaching. 62(3). 629–654. 4 indexed citations

Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2023). Everyday engineering: The effects of transformative experience in middle school engineering. Journal of Engineering Education. 112(3). 674–694. 3 indexed citations

Danielson, Robert, Gale M. Sinatra, Shenghai Dai, et al.. (2023). The Development and Validation of the Elementary Activity Interest Measure. The Journal of Experimental Education. 93(2). 396–418.

Xie, Kui, et al.. (2023). Experience sampling methodology and technology: an approach for examining situational, longitudinal, and multi-dimensional characteristics of engagement. Educational Technology Research and Development. 72(5). 2585–2615. 15 indexed citations

Taasoobshirazi, Gita, et al.. (2022). Understanding Students’ Free-Body Diagrams Using the Metarepresentations Survey for Physics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(3). 93–101. 2 indexed citations

Danielson, Robert, et al.. (2022). Can Multiple Texts Prompt Causal Thinking? The Role of Epistemic Emotions. The Journal of Experimental Education. 91(4). 621–635. 5 indexed citations

Washburn, Erin K., et al.. (2022). What do teachers know about dyslexia? It’s complicated!. Reading and Writing. 35(9). 2077–2107. 17 indexed citations

Heddy, Benjamin C., Doug Lombardi, & Robert Danielson. (2021). The moral side of the climate crisis: the effect of moral conviction on learning about climate change. 39(1). 58–69. 3 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2021). Emotions, values, and engagement: Understanding motivation of first-generation college students.. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. 10(1). 1–15. 4 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2021). Transforming the Online Learning Experience. Teaching of Psychology. 50(4). 370–380. 3 indexed citations

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Peltier, Corey, et al.. (2020). Dyslexia Knowledge Questionnaire. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 4 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2020). Using conceptual change theory to help preservice teachers understand dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia. 70(1). 62–78. 24 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2019). Making ‘Brain Food’: converting photosynthesis into a positive learning experience through authentic instruction. Journal of Biological Education. 55(3). 293–305. 4 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2019). The relationship between perceived instrumentality, interest and transformative experiences in online engineering. Educational Psychology. 41(1). 63–78. 5 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C., et al.. (2019). Extending the "Warming Trend" to Writing Transfer Research: Investigating Transformative Experiences with Writing Concepts.. 41. 2 indexed citations

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Pugh, Kevin J., et al.. (2017). Supporting Deep Engagement: The Teaching for Transformative Experiences in Science (TTES) Model. The Journal of Experimental Education. 85(4). 629–657. 28 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C. & Gale M. Sinatra. (2017). Transformative parents: Facilitating transformative experiences and interest with a parent involvement intervention. Science Education. 101(5). 765–786. 43 indexed citations

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Heddy, Benjamin C. & Kevin J. Pugh. (2015). Bigger is Not Always Better: Should Educators Aim For Big Transformative Learning Events or Small Transformative Experiences?. 3(1). 52–58. 12 indexed citations

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Brem, Sarah K., et al.. (2012). Misconceptions Regarding Emergent Phenomena Vary By Domain. Cognitive Science. 34(34).

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