Grant Wiggins

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
51 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Grant Wiggins is a scholar working on Education, Artificial Intelligence and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, Grant Wiggins has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Education, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 2 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in Grant Wiggins's work include Educational Assessment and Pedagogy (6 papers), Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (5 papers) and Student Assessment and Feedback (4 papers). Grant Wiggins is often cited by papers focused on Educational Assessment and Pedagogy (6 papers), Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning (5 papers) and Student Assessment and Feedback (4 papers). Grant Wiggins collaborates with scholars based in United States. Grant Wiggins's co-authors include Jay McTighe, Carol Gilligan, Fred M. Newmann, Ron Brandt, Jeffrey D. Wilhelm, Michael W. Smith, Deborah Appleman, Violet H. Harada, K. Patricia Cross and Ellen Earle Chaffee and has published in prestigious journals such as Educational Researcher, Business Horizons and Educational leadership.

In The Last Decade

Grant Wiggins

43 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Understanding by Design

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Grant Wiggins

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Grant Wiggins. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Grant Wiggins based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Grant Wiggins. Grant Wiggins is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	How to Make Your Questions Essential. 2015 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins, (unknown)	5
2	How Good Is Good Enough 2014 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	3
3	Seven Keys to Effective Feedback 2012 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	129
4	A Diploma Worth Having. 2011 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	6
5	Real-World Writing: Making Purpose and Audience Matter. 2009 ·The English Journal ·Grant Wiggins	12
6	Put Understanding First. 2008 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe	35
7	Schooling by Design: Mission, Action, and Achievement 2007 ·Progress in clinical and biological research ·Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe	53
8	Examining the Teaching Life. 2006 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe	27
9	You Can Teach for Meaning. 2004 ·Educational leadership ·Jay McTighe, (unknown), Grant Wiggins	20
10	The Understanding by design handbook 1999 ·Jay McTighe, Grant Wiggins	33
11	Toward Better Report Cards. 1994 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	16
12	None of the Above. 1994 ·The Executive educator ·Grant Wiggins	6
13	Assessment: Authenticity, Context, and Validity. 1993 ·Phi Delta Kappan ·Grant Wiggins	182
14	Creating Tests Worth Taking. 1992 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	160
15	Standards, Not Standardization: Evoking Quality Student Work. 1991 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	47
16	A Response to Cizek. 1991 ·Phi Delta Kappan ·Grant Wiggins	9
17	The Futility of Trying to Teach Everything of Importance. 1989 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	63
18	Teaching to the (Authentic) Test. 1989 ·Educational leadership ·Grant Wiggins	206
19	The Place of Philosophy in the High School Curriculum 1981 ·Teaching Philosophy ·Grant Wiggins	1
20	Philosophy and the High School Curriculum. 1980 ·Grant Wiggins	1

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