Dr. Lombardi gave the Richard E. Snow Address at APA 2020, held virtually, on Scaffolding Students’ Scientific Thinking, featuring ongoing work from the MEL Project. Check out the presentation below:

Lombardi, D. (2020). Scaffolding scientific thinking. Paper invited for presentation at the 128th Annual American Psychological Association Convention; this paper was presented virtually due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Check out doctoral students’ Josh Medrano and Joshua Jaffe, master teachers’ Chris Roemmele and Margaret Holzer, and Doug Lombardi’s recent article about using the MEL to teach about water resources, recently published in the journal Water, special issue Water Literacy and Education.

The SLRG continues to be supportive of the various conferences being moved online due to the COVID-19 outbreak. We have collected our virtual presentations here, and we hope that you will find them useful. Please feel free to reach out to any of the authors!

ST&D 2020, July 21-22, Cyberspace

Medrano, J., Jaffe, J., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Does the evidence support the model? Examining the effectiveness of two instructional scaffolds in science classrooms.
Recorded Presentation

APA 2020, August 6-8, Washington, D.C.

Jaffe, J., Medrano, J., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Promoting scientific plausibility and knowledge shifts through modeled evaluation activities.
Recorded Presentation

Matewos, A., & Lombardi, D. (2020). Examining engagement of a small group discourse network during collaborative argumentation.