Melissa Gresalfi

2.7k total citations
48 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Melissa Gresalfi is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Computer Science Applications. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Gresalfi has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 23 papers in Education and 13 papers in Computer Science Applications. Recurrent topics in Melissa Gresalfi's work include Educational Games and Gamification (19 papers), Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (14 papers) and Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (14 papers). Melissa Gresalfi is often cited by papers focused on Educational Games and Gamification (19 papers), Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods (14 papers) and Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques (14 papers). Melissa Gresalfi collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Melissa Gresalfi's co-authors include Paul Cobb, Sasha A. Barab, Victoria Hand, Adam Ingram‐Goble, Lynn Liao Hodge, James G. Greeno, Taylor Martin, Jacqueline Barnes, Dionne Cross Francis and Maria Solomou and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers & Education, Educational Researcher and Educational Psychologist.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Gresalfi

44 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melissa Gresalfi United States 17 960 762 297 235 135 48 1.5k
Janneke van de Pol Netherlands 16 1.2k 1.2× 980 1.3× 118 0.4× 188 0.8× 61 0.5× 40 2.0k
J. Terwel Netherlands 19 1.0k 1.1× 628 0.8× 188 0.6× 89 0.4× 145 1.1× 75 1.4k
Julie Shattuck United States 7 732 0.8× 410 0.5× 136 0.5× 235 1.0× 39 0.3× 11 1.4k
Gary R. Morrison United States 22 1.1k 1.1× 657 0.9× 162 0.5× 257 1.1× 75 0.6× 80 1.7k
David Reinking United States 24 1.3k 1.3× 812 1.1× 286 1.0× 88 0.4× 54 0.4× 79 2.0k
Atsusi Hirumi United States 14 537 0.6× 704 0.9× 187 0.6× 269 1.1× 41 0.3× 41 1.2k
Kathleen Stürmer Germany 22 1.6k 1.7× 598 0.8× 320 1.1× 147 0.6× 61 0.5× 52 2.2k
Lyn Dawes United Kingdom 14 1.5k 1.6× 1.2k 1.5× 144 0.5× 83 0.4× 29 0.2× 34 2.0k
Nicola Yelland Australia 20 1.2k 1.2× 339 0.4× 409 1.4× 158 0.7× 52 0.4× 102 1.6k
Ricki Goldman United States 10 612 0.6× 428 0.6× 189 0.6× 123 0.5× 18 0.1× 24 1.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa Gresalfi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Gresalfi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Danish, Joshua, Melissa Gresalfi, Adam V. Maltese, et al.. (2025). Play Across Disciplines, Across Ages: What is Lost Without Play?. Proceedings.. 2408–2416.
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Gresalfi, Melissa, et al.. (2023). What Counts? Play as a Mechanism for Disrupting Participation Patterns in School Mathematics. Proceedings.. 625–632.
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Brady, Corey, et al.. (2020). Debugging for Art's Sake: Beginning Programmers' Debugging Activity in an Expressive Coding Context.. ICLS. 1 indexed citations
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Gresalfi, Melissa, et al.. (2020). Street Mathematics and School Mathematics in a Video Game. ICLS.
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Gresalfi, Melissa, Corey Brady, Crina Damşa, et al.. (2019). Theorizing and Measuring Collective Productive Disciplinary Engagement. Duo Research Archive (University of Oslo). 1 indexed citations
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Gresalfi, Melissa, et al.. (2018). Room for Everyone? Identification Processes in Crafting and Math.. ICLS. 1 indexed citations
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Robinson, Jennifer Meta, et al.. (2015). Teaching on Purpose: A Collegium Community Model for Supporting Intentional Teaching.. Journal on excellence in college teaching. 26(1). 81–110. 3 indexed citations
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Gresalfi, Melissa. (2015). Designing to support critical engagement with statistics. ZDM. 47(6). 933–946. 9 indexed citations
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Hand, Victoria & Melissa Gresalfi. (2015). The Joint Accomplishment of Identity. Educational Psychologist. 50(3). 190–203. 60 indexed citations
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Jasmine, Y., Charles Munter, Einat Heyd‐Metzuyanim, et al.. (2014). Disrupting learning: Changing local practice for good. International Conference of Learning Sciences. 3. 1396–1405. 2 indexed citations
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Peppler, Kylie, et al.. (2014). Short Circuits: Crafting e-Puppets with DIY Electronics. 4 indexed citations
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Peppler, Kylie, et al.. (2014). Script Changers: Digital Storytelling with Scratch. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 7 indexed citations
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Gresalfi, Melissa. (2013). Technology in Mathematics Education: A Discussion of Affordances.. Proceedings of the ... PME Conference. 3 indexed citations
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Gresalfi, Melissa & Jacqueline Barnes. (2012). Consequential Feedback as a Means of Supporting Student Engagement and Understanding.. ICLS. 2 indexed citations
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Gresalfi, Melissa & Sasha A. Barab. (2011). Learning for a Reason: Supporting Forms of Engagement by Designing Tasks and Orchestrating Environments. Theory Into Practice. 50(4). 300–310. 37 indexed citations
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Barab, Sasha A., et al.. (2010). Transformative play: games as 21 st century curriculum. International Conference of Learning Sciences. 93–100. 4 indexed citations
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Barab, Sasha A., et al.. (2009). Why educators should care about: Games. Educational leadership. 67(1). 76–80. 48 indexed citations
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Gresalfi, Melissa & Adam Ingram‐Goble. (2008). Designing for dispositions. International Conference of Learning Sciences. 72(8). 297–304. 4 indexed citations
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Višňovská, Jana, et al.. (2007). Situating teaching in histories of participation: Two contrasting visions of teaching. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 2 indexed citations
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Stenning, Keith & Melissa Gresalfi. (2006). Heterogeneous reasoning in learning to model. Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence. 18(2). 249–266.

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