The following are selected publications. For a full list, please download my CV.
Lombardi, D., Shipley, T. F., Astronomy Team (Bailey, J. M, Bretones, P. S., Prather, E. E.), Biology Team (Ballen, C. J., Knight, J. K., Smith, M. K.), Chemistry Team (Stowe, R. L., Cooper, M. M.), Engineering Team (Prince, M.), Geography Team (Atit, K., Uttal, D. H.), Geoscience Team (LaDue, N. D., McNeal, P. M., Ryker, K., St. John, K., van der Hoeven Kraft, K. J.), & Physics Team (Docktor, J. L.) (in press). The curious construct of active learning. Psychological Science in the Public Interest.
Lewandowsky, S., Cook, J., Ecker, U. K. H., Albarracín, D., Amazeen, M. A., Kendeou, P., Lombardi, D., Newman, E. J., Pennycook, G., Porter, E. Rand, D. G., Rapp, D. N., Reifler, J., Roozenbeek, J., Schmid, P., Seifert, C. M., Sinatra, G. M., Swire-Thompson, B., van der Linden, S., Vraga, E. K., Wood, T. J., Zaragoza, M. S. (2020). The Debunking Handbook 2020. Available at https://sks.to/db2020. http://doi.org/10.17910/b7.1182
Lombardi, D., Uslu, B., & Bailey, J. M. (2020). Extreme weather events and the climate crisis: What is the connection? The Earth Scientist, 36(3), 22-26. Available at https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blog.umd.edu/dist/2/664/files/2020/10/TES_MEL2issue_Fall2020_final.pdf
Christensen, D. M., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Understanding biological evolution through computational thinking: A K-12 learning progression. Science & Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-020-00141-7
Medrano, J., Jaffe, J., Lombardi, D., Holzer, M. A., & Roemmele, C. (2020). Students’ scientific evaluations of water resources. Water, 12(7), 2048. https://doi.org/10.3390/w12072048
Duchi, L., Lombardi, D., Paas, F., & Loyens, S. M. (2020). How a growth mindset can change the climate: The power of implicit beliefs in influencing people’s view and action. Journal of Environmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2020.101461
Sinatra, G. M., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Evaluating sources of scientific evidence and claims in the post-truth era may require reappraising plausibility judgments. Educational Psychologist, 55(3). https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2020.1730181
Van Meter, P., List, A., Lombardi, D., & Kendeou, P. (Eds.) (2020). Handbook of learning from multiple representations and perspectives. New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443961
Lombardi, D. Heddy, B. C., & *Matewos, A. M. (2020). Values, attitudes, and beliefs: Cognitive filters shaping integration of multiple representations and multiple perspectives. In Van Meter, P., List, A., Lombardi, D., & Kendeou, P. (Eds.), Handbook of learning from multiple representations and perspectives (pp. 1-14). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443961-20
List, A., Van Meter, P., Lombardi, D., & Kendeou, P. (2020). Loggers and conservationists: Navigating the multiple resource forest through the trees. In Van Meter, P., List, A., Lombardi, D., & Kendeou, P. (Eds.), Handbook of learning from multiple representations and perspectives (pp. 1-14). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443961-1
Van Meter, P., List, A., Kendeou, P., & Lombardi, D. (2020). The multiple resources learning framework: Learning from multiple representations and multiple perspectives. In Van Meter, P., List, A., Lombardi, D., & Kendeou, P. (Eds.), Handbook of learning from multiple representations and perspectives (pp. 557-588). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429443961-31
Lombardi, D. & Bailey, J. M. (2020). Science strategy interventions. In Dinsmore, D. L., Fryer, L. K., & Parkinson, M. M. (Eds.), Handbook of strategies and strategic processing: Conceptualization, intervention, measurement, and analysis (pp. 177-194). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429423635-11
Lombardi, D. (2019). Thinking scientifically in a changing world. Science Brief: Psychological Science Agenda, 33(1). Retrieved from https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2019/01/changing-world.aspx
Lombardi, D., Bailey, J. M., Bickel, E. S., & Burrell, S. (2018). Scaffolding scientific thinking: Students’ evaluations and judgments during Earth science knowledge construction. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 54, 184-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2018.06.008
Lombardi, D., Bickel, E. S., Bailey, J. M., & Burrell, S. (2018). High school students' evaluations, plausibility (re) appraisals, and knowledge about topics in Earth science. Science Education, 102(1), 153-177. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21315
Lombardi, D., & Sinatra, G. M. (2018). Don’t believe everything you think: Reappraising judgments about conceptions. In T. G. Amin, & O. Levrini (Eds.), Converging perspectives on conceptual change: Mapping a new paradigm in the learning sciences (pp. 237-244). New York, NY: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315467139-28
Lombardi, D. (2016). Beyond the controversy: Instructional scaffolds to promote critical evaluation and understanding of Earth science. The Earth Scientist, 32(2), 5-10. Available at https://sciencelearning.umd.edu/files/2018/09/tes_summer_2016.v3.pdf
Lombardi, D., Nussbaum, E. M., & Sinatra, G. M. (2016). Plausibility judgments in conceptual change and epistemic cognition. Educational Psychologist, 51(1), 35-56. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2015.1113134
Lombardi, D., Danielson, R. W., & Young, N. (2016). A plausible connection: Models examining the relations between evaluation, plausibility, and the refutation text effect. Learning and Instruction, 44, 74-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.03.003
Ryu, S., & Lombardi, D. (2015). Coding classroom interactions for collective and individual engagement. Educational Psychologist, 50(1), 70-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2014.1001891
Sinatra, G. M., Heddy, B. C., & Lombardi, D. (2015). The challenges of defining and measuring student engagement in science. Educational Psychologist, 50(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00461520.2014.1002924
Lombardi, D., Seyranian, V., & Sinatra, G. M. (2014). Source effects and plausibility judgments when reading about climate change. Discourse Processes, 51(1/2), 75-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2013.855049
Lombardi, D., Sinatra, G. M., & Nussbaum, E. M. (2013). Plausibility reappraisals and shifts in middle school students’ climate change conceptions. Learning and Instruction, 27, 50-62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.learninstruc.2013.03.001