Spencer Kagan

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Spencer Kagan is a scholar working on Education, Social Psychology and Clinical Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Spencer Kagan has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Education, 15 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Clinical Psychology. Recurrent topics in Spencer Kagan's work include Early Childhood Education and Development (20 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 papers) and Parental Involvement in Education (10 papers). Spencer Kagan is often cited by papers focused on Early Childhood Education and Development (20 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 papers) and Parental Involvement in Education (10 papers). Spencer Kagan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Argentina. Spencer Kagan's co-authors include George P. Knight, Millard C. Madsen, G. Lawrence Zahn, Robert E. Slavin, Shlomo Sharan, Rachel Hertz‐Lazarowitz, Richard A. Schmuck, Keith F. Widaman, W. M. Nelson and Curt Hoffman and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Child Development and Journal of Educational Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Spencer Kagan

56 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 100 200 300 400
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.

  1. Learning to Cooperate, Cooperating to Learn
    1985 407 citations Spencer Kagan et al. profile →

Peers

Spencer Kagan
Anita E. Woolfolk United States
Richard S. Prawat United States
Robert W. Rieber United States
Robert E. Grinder United States
Bruce K. Britton United States
Cathy Wylie United Kingdom
Jeanne D. Day United States
Rosemary E. Sutton United States
David Moshman United States
Yi-Guang Lin United States
Anita E. Woolfolk United States
Spencer Kagan
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Countries citing papers authored by Spencer Kagan

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Fields of papers citing papers by Spencer Kagan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Spencer Kagan

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kagan, Spencer. (2017). Preference for control in rural Mexican and urban Anglo American children. Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology. 10.
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Kagan, Spencer. (2014). Kagan Structures, Processing, and Excellence in College Teaching.. Journal on excellence in college teaching. 25. 119–138. 16 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer, et al.. (2002). Kagan Structures for English Language Learners.. 5(4). 10–12. 17 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer. (2001). Teaching for Character and Community.. Educational leadership. 59(2). 50–55. 21 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer. (1996). Avoiding the Group-Grades Trap.. Learning Research and Practice. 24(4). 56–58. 5 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer. (1995). Group Grades Miss the Mark.. Educational leadership. 52(8). 68–71. 39 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer. (1995). We Can Talk: Cooperative Learning in the Elementary ESL Classroom. ERIC Digest.. 4 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer. (1990). The Structural Approach to Cooperative Learning.. Educational leadership. 47(4). 12–15. 221 indexed citations
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Knight, George P. & Spencer Kagan. (1982). Siblings, Birth Order, and Cooperative-Competitive Social Behavior. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 13(2). 239–249. 12 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer & George P. Knight. (1981). Social motives among Anglo American and Mexican American children: Experimental and projective measures. Journal of Research in Personality. 15(1). 93–106. 39 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer & George P. Knight. (1979). Cooperation-Competition and Self-Esteem. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 10(4). 457–467. 25 indexed citations
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Knight, George P. & Spencer Kagan. (1977). Development of Prosocial and Competitive Behaviors in Anglo-American and Mexican-American Children. Child Development. 48(4). 1385–1385. 81 indexed citations
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Knight, George P. & Spencer Kagan. (1977). Acculturation of Prosocial and Competitive Behaviors among Second- and Third-Generation Mexican-American Children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 8(3). 273–284. 60 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer, et al.. (1977). Competition and school achievement among Anglo-American and Mexican-American children.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 69(4). 432–441. 44 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer, et al.. (1976). Three Social Motives and Field Independence-Dependence in Anglo American and Mexican American Children. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 7(4). 451–462. 26 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer, et al.. (1975). Maternal Response to Success and Failure of Anglo-American, Mexican-American, and Mexican Children. Child Development. 46(2). 452–452. 14 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer & G. Lawrence Zahn. (1975). Field dependence and the school achievement gap between Anglo-American and Mexican-American children.. Journal of Educational Psychology. 67(5). 643–650. 44 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer. (1974). Field Dependence and Conformity of Rural Mexican and Urban Anglo-American Children. Child Development. 45(3). 765–765. 18 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer & Millard C. Madsen. (1972). Experimental analyses of cooperation and competition of Anglo-American and Mexican children.. Developmental Psychology. 6(1). 49–59. 64 indexed citations
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Kagan, Spencer & Millard C. Madsen. (1971). Cooperation and competition of Mexican, Mexican-American, and Anglo-American children of two ages under four instructional sets.. Developmental Psychology. 5(1). 32–39. 171 indexed citations

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