Penny Thompson

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
38 papers, 822 citations indexed

About

Penny Thompson is a scholar working on Education, Sociology and Political Science and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Penny Thompson has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 822 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Education, 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Penny Thompson's work include Religious Education and Schools (9 papers), Online and Blended Learning (9 papers) and Religion, Society, and Development (8 papers). Penny Thompson is often cited by papers focused on Religious Education and Schools (9 papers), Online and Blended Learning (9 papers) and Religion, Society, and Development (8 papers). Penny Thompson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Penny Thompson's co-authors include Jane S. Vogler, David W. Davis, David B. Elliott, David Whitaker, Donald P. French, Brenda Watson, Tracey Sulak, Shahn Bisschop, Anthony A. Smith and Raphaël Duboz and has published in prestigious journals such as Computers & Education, Education and Information Technologies and Instructional Science.

In The Last Decade

Penny Thompson

29 papers receiving 737 citations

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Stephen Petrina Canada

Ru-Chu Shih Taiwan

Shiang‐Kwei Wang United States

William Sugar United States

Teresa Franklin United States

Hsueh‐Hua Chuang Taiwan

Teresa S. Foulger United States

Peter Twining United Kingdom

Peter E. Doolittle United States

Michele Jacobsen Canada

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Thompson, Penny, et al.. (2023). The Evolution of Technology for the Mathematics Classroom. TechTrends. 67(5). 843–850. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny, et al.. (2021). The Effect of Designing and Segmenting Instructional Video. Journal of Information Technology Education Research. 20. 173–200. 6 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny, et al.. (2020). Effects of Video Discussion Posts on Social Presence and Course Satisfaction. The Electronic Journal of e-Learning. 18(5). 7 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny, et al.. (2020). Flipped University Class: A Study of Motivation and Learning. Journal of Information Technology Education Research. 19. 41–63. 28 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny, et al.. (2019). Telepresence Robots as Embodied Agents in the Classroom.. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny. (2018). Foundations of Educational Technology. SHAREOK (University of Oklahoma). 9 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny. (2017). 3.2 Cognitive Theories of Learning.

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Thompson, Penny. (2017). 2.1 Cognitive Development: The Theory of Jean Piaget.

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Vogler, Jane S., et al.. (2017). The hard work of soft skills: augmenting the project-based learning experience with interdisciplinary teamwork. Instructional Science. 46(3). 457–488. 159 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny, et al.. (2017). Strategic Tooling: Technology for Constructing a Community of Inquiry. The Journal of Educators Online. 14(2). 6 indexed citations

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Watson, Brenda & Penny Thompson. (2014). The Effective Teaching of Religious Education. 15 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny. (2013). Viewer comments as educational annotation in video content sharing sites. 1(2). 126–126. 1 indexed citations

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Chaka, Hassen, Flavie Goutard, Raphaël Duboz, Shahn Bisschop, & Penny Thompson. (2011). Poultry market contact networks in Ethiopia: implications for disease spread and surveillance.. Agritrop (Cirad). 380–382. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny & Brenda Watson. (2010). Why teach doctrine? A response to Dan Moulin’s ‘Challenging Christianity: Leo Tolstoy and religious education’ in Journal of Beliefs and Values , Vol. 30, No. 2, August 2009. Journal of Beliefs and Values. 31(3). 333–342. 1 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny. (2007). A reply to Peter Doble. British Journal of Religious Education. 29(2). 179–183.

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Thompson, Penny. (2004). Whose confession? Which tradition?. British Journal of Religious Education. 26(1). 61–72. 16 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny. (2003). Critical Confessionalism for Teaching Religion in Schools: A UK Case Study. Journal of Christian Education. os-46(2). 5–16.

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Thompson, Penny, et al.. (2001). Faith in Education: The Role of the Churches in Education: A Response to the Dearing Report on Church Schools in the Third Millennium. 5 indexed citations

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Thompson, Penny. (1993). Religionism: a response to John Hull. British Journal of Religious Education. 16(1). 47–50. 3 indexed citations

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Elliott, David B., David Whitaker, & Penny Thompson. (1989). Use of displacement threshold hyperacuity to isolate the neural component of senile vision loss. Applied Optics. 28(10). 1914–1914. 31 indexed citations

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