Karen Brennan

4.5k citations
46 papers · 2.8k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 13
Topics
Teaching and Learning Programming (19 papers)Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (11 papers)Educational Games and Gamification (8 papers)

In The Last Decade

Karen Brennan

43 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Karen Brennan
Comparison fields: 5 of 117
  • Computer Science Applications 1.9k
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 948
  • Information Systems 498
  • Education 474
  • Infectious Diseases 249
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Fields of papers citing papers by Karen Brennan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Karen Brennan

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Karen Brennan. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Karen Brennan 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 Karen Brennan. Karen Brennan is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Expanding Outcomes: Exploring Varied Forms of Teacher Learning in an Online Professional Development Experience.
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Beyond Technocentrism: Supporting Constructionism in the Classroom
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Beyond right or wrong: Challenges of including creative design activities in the classroom
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Identifying and Assessing Computational Thinking Practices.
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Mind the gap: Differences between the aspirational and the actual in an online community of learners.
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Getting started with Scratch
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New Media and Pre-Service Professional Development: Using Blogs for Student Teacher E-Portfolio Creation and Open Source Programming Curriculum
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About Karen Brennan

Karen Brennan is a scholar working on Computer Science Applications, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Education, having authored 46 papers that have together received 2.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Teaching and Learning Programming (19 papers), Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (11 papers) and Educational Games and Gamification (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Computer Science Applications (1.9k citations), Developmental and Educational Psychology (948 citations) and Software (239 citations). Karen Brennan has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Finland. Frequent co-authors include Mitchel Resnick, Andrés Monroy‐Hernández, Yasmin B. Kafai, John Maloney, Amon Millner, Natalie Rusk, Jay Silver, Eric Rosenbaum, Brian S. Silverman and Jyoti Somani. Their work appears in journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, Communications of the ACM and Computers & Education.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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