Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver

18.0k total citations · 7 hit papers
209 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 108 papers in Education and 42 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver's work include Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (108 papers), Science Education and Pedagogy (37 papers) and Problem and Project Based Learning (32 papers). Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver is often cited by papers focused on Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (108 papers), Science Education and Pedagogy (37 papers) and Problem and Project Based Learning (32 papers). Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and South Korea. Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver's co-authors include Clark A. Chinn, Ravit Golan Duncan, Howard S. Barrows, Heisawn Jeong, Rebecca Jordan, Angela M. O’Donnell, Roger Azevedo, Lei Liu, Carol K. K. Chan and Suparna Sinha and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers in Human Behavior, Conservation Biology and Biological Conservation.

In The Last Decade

Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver

195 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Problem-Based Learning: What and How Do Students Learn?

2004 2.9k citations Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver profile →
Scaffolding and Achievement in Problem-Based and Inquiry Learning: A Response to Kirschner, Sweller, and Clark (2006)

2007 1.5k citations Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, Ravit Golan Duncan et al. profile →
Goals and Strategies of a Problem-based Learning Facilitator

2006 522 citations Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver et al. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning profile →
The International Handbook of Collaborative Learning

2013 491 citations Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, Clark A. Chinn et al. profile →
Seven Affordances of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: How to Support Collaborative Learning? How Can Technologies Help?

2016 276 citations Heisawn Jeong, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver profile →
Ten years of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning: A meta-analysis of CSCL in STEM education during 2005–2014

2019 194 citations Heisawn Jeong, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver et al. profile →
Let's talk evidence – The case for combining inquiry-based and direct instruction

2023 62 citations Clark A. Chinn, Frank Fischer et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver United States	39	7.5k	4.9k	1.6k	955	847	209	11.2k
Ann L. Brown United States	24	8.3k 1.1×	5.1k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	876 1.0×	72	14.1k
Joseph Krajcik United States	65	12.6k 1.7×	7.1k 1.5×	1.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.7×	1.5k 1.8×	207	16.5k
Ronald W. Marx United States	40	8.2k 1.1×	4.5k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 1.2×	899 1.1×	117	11.3k
Rodney R. Cocking United States	12	7.2k 1.0×	3.6k 0.7×	991 0.6×	1.1k 1.2×	787 0.9×	38	11.1k
Ton de Jong Netherlands	48	5.5k 0.7×	4.9k 1.0×	1.3k 0.8×	1.4k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	217	10.0k
Christian D. Schunn United States	55	5.0k 0.7×	3.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	475 0.5×	639 0.8×	337	10.8k
Lorin W. Anderson United States	28	7.8k 1.0×	2.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	867 0.9×	1.5k 1.7×	92	12.0k
Allan Collins United States	27	8.5k 1.1×	6.9k 1.4×	1.9k 1.2×	622 0.7×	1.4k 1.6×	58	15.4k
Roy Pea United States	51	5.2k 0.7×	5.6k 1.1×	3.8k 2.4×	648 0.7×	1.8k 2.1×	176	12.4k
Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar United States	38	5.3k 0.7×	3.7k 0.8×	753 0.5×	679 0.7×	618 0.7×	115	7.6k

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Lee, Seung, Bradford Mott, Krista Glazewski, et al.. (2024). Supporting Upper Elementary Students in Learning AI Concepts with Story-Driven Game-Based Learning. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(21). 23092–23100. 1 indexed citations

Hmelo‐Silver, Cindy E., et al.. (2024). Disagreeing softly: Supporting students in managing disagreement in peer critique. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning. 20(2). 249–282. 1 indexed citations

Ottenbreit‐Leftwich, Anne, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, Krista Glazewski, et al.. (2024). Inquiry-based Artificial Intelligence Curriculum for Upper Elementary Students: A Design Case of PrimaryAI. Indiana Magazine of History (Indiana University). 15(3). 94–108. 1 indexed citations

Glazewski, Krista, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, Thomas Brush, et al.. (2024). An Investigation of Dashboard in Collaborative Inquiry: The Dynamic Interplay between Technology and Pedagogy in Classroom Orchestration. Computer-supported collaborative learning/The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference. 253–256. 1 indexed citations

Hmelo‐Silver, Cindy E., et al.. (2024). Scaffolding Students’ Adoption of Norms for Peer Critique. Computer-supported collaborative learning/The Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference. 349–350. 1 indexed citations

Lester, James C., Mohit Bansal, Gautam Biswas, et al.. (2024). The AI Institute for Engaged Learning. AI Magazine. 45(1). 69–76.

Duncan, Ravit Golan, et al.. (2023). Supporting Students’ Epistemic Agency to Revise a Class Criteria List for Scientific Models. Proceedings.. 1110–1113. 1 indexed citations

Glazewski, Krista, et al.. (2023). Co-designing a Classroom Orchestration Assistant for Game-based PBL Environments. TechTrends. 67(6). 918–930. 1 indexed citations

Hmelo‐Silver, Cindy E., et al.. (2023). Visual Representations for Studying Collaborative Inquiry. Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning. 17(2).

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Mott, Bradford, Krista Glazewski, Anne Ottenbreit‐Leftwich, et al.. (2023). Fostering Upper Elementary AI Education: Iteratively Refining a Use-Modify-Create Scaffolding Progression for AI Planning. 647–647. 1 indexed citations

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Ottenbreit‐Leftwich, Anne, Krista Glazewski, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, et al.. (2022). Lessons Learned for AI Education with Elementary Students and Teachers. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education. 33(2). 267–289. 48 indexed citations

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Ottenbreit‐Leftwich, Anne, Krista Glazewski, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, et al.. (2022). Is Elementary AI Education Possible?. 1364–1364. 1 indexed citations

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Danish, Joshua, et al.. (2019). Mediating Collaboration in History with Network Analysis.. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. 2 indexed citations

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Hmelo‐Silver, Cindy E., et al.. (2017). Moving Apart and Coming Together: Discourse, Engagement, and Deep Learning. Educational Technology & Society. 20(4). 219–232. 12 indexed citations

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Maher, Carolyn A., et al.. (2014). Teachers Can Learn to Attend to Students' Reasoning Using Videos as a Tool.. Issues in teacher education. 23(1). 31–47. 14 indexed citations

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Hmelo‐Silver, Cindy E., Rebecca Jordan, Catherine Eberbach, et al.. (2010). Connecting the Visible to the Invisible: Helping Middle School Students Understand Complex Ecosystem Processes.. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 32(32). 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Lei & Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver. (2008). Collaborative scientific conceptual change in simulation-supported learning environment. International Conference of Learning Sciences. 477–484. 1 indexed citations

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Rummel, Nikol, Cindy E. Hmelo‐Silver, Armin Weinberger, et al.. (2008). Using contrasting cases to relate collaborative processes and outcomes in CSCL. FreiDok plus (Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg). 7 indexed citations

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Hmelo‐Silver, Cindy E., et al.. (2007). A Qualitative Analysis of Expert-Expert Differences in Understanding Aquariums. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 2 indexed citations

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Hmelo‐Silver, Cindy E.. (2003). Comparing expert and novice understanding of a complex system from the perspective of structures, behaviors, and functions. Cognitive Science. 28(1). 127–138. 283 indexed citations

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