Publications

Schank, P ., Barth, C., Crawford, V., and Fusco, J. (2025, May). Collaborative Argumentation for Learning. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/251

Schank, P ., Jenks, L., Barth, C., Crawford, C., Powers, K., & Fusco, J. (2025, May). Classroom Discourse. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/250

Roschelle, J. & Schank, P. (2020) Artificial intelligence & learning. In Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning, Ambitious mashups: Reflections on a decade of cyberlearning research. (pp. 8-10). Digital Promise. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12265/105

Fusco, J. & Schank, P. (2020) Research methods. In Center for Innovative Research in Cyberlearning, Ambitious mashups: Reflections on a decade of cyberlearning research. (pp. 15-18). Digital Promise.

Grover, S., Basu, S., & Schank, P. (2018). What We Can Learn About Student Learning From Open-Ended Programming Projects in Middle School Computer Science. Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (pp. 999-1004). Baltimore, MD: ACM. (see ACM page)

Fusco, J. & Schank, P. (2018). Broadening Youth Participation in Computer Science and Engineering. In CIRCL Primer Series. Redwood City, CA: Digital Promise Global.

Roschelle, J., Martin, W., Ahn, J. & Schank, P. (Eds.). (2017). Cyberlearning Community Report: The State of Cyberlearning and the Future of Learning With Technology. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12265/3

Roschelle, J., Jona, K., Schank, P., Grover, S. & Martin, W. (2017). Remote scientific labs: Authenticity at distance. In J. Roschelle, W. Martin, J. Ahn, & P. Schank (Eds.), Cyberlearning Community Report: The State of Cyberlearning and the Future of Learning With Technology (pp. 36-40). Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Roschelle, J., Martin, W., & Schank, P. (2017). Cyberlearning Community Report: Emerging Design Themes in US TEL. Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL), Tallinn, Estonia, Sept 12-15, 2017.

Vahey, P., Finzer, W., Yarnall, L., & Schank, P. (2017). Data Science Education. In CIRCL Primer Series. Menlo Park: SRI International.

Roschelle, J., Jona, K., & Schank, P. (2017). Remote Labs. In CIRCL Primer Series. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Fusco, J., Remold, J., Roschelle, J., & Schank, P. (2016). Smart and Connected Communities for Learning. In CIRCL Primer Series. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Grover, S., & Schank, P. (2015). Mentoring girls in computer science [Blog post]. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Feng, M., Gobert, J., & Schank, P. (2014). Technology Enabled Formative Assessment. In CIRCL Primer Series. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Suthers, D., Fusco, J., Schank, P., Chu, K., & Schlager, M. (2013). Discovery of community structures in a heterogeneous professional online network. In Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences (HICSS-46), January 7-10, 2013, Maui, Hawaii (CD-ROM). New Brunswick: IEEE, Inc.

Fusco, J., Haavind, S., Remold, J., & Schank, P. (2011). Exploring differences in online professional development seminars with the community of inquiry framework. Educational Media International, 48(3), 139-149.

Penuel, W. R., Dominguez, X., Llorente, C., & Schank, P. (2011) Requirements for a tool for coaches to support their work to improve quality teaching and learning in Head Start classrooms. Boulder, CO and Menlo Park, CA: University of Colorado Boulder and SRI International.

Penuel, W. R., Fullerton, S., Schank, P., Dominguez, X., Weidler-Lewis, J., & Drummond, M. (2013, submitted). Designing a Sociotechnical Infrastructure for Orchestrating Instructional Coaching. Submitted to the 10th International Conference of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL 2013).

Prieto, L., Schank, P., Villagra, S., Penuel, W., & Dimitriadis, Y. (2011). Mind the gaps: Using patterns to change everyday classroom practice towards contingent CSCL teaching. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference Proceedings Volume I - Long Papers, pp. 518-524. International Society of the Learning Sciences.

Roschelle, J., Patton, C., Schank, P., Penuel, W., Looi, C-K, Chen, W., Chan, A., Prieto, P, Villagra, S., & Dimitriadis, Y. (2011). CSCL and innovation: In classrooms, with teachers, among school leaders, in schools of education. Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Conference Proceedings Volume III — Community Events, pp. 1073-1080. International Society of the Learning Sciences.

DeBarger, A., Penuel, W. R., Harris, C. J., & Schank, P. (2010). Teaching routines to enhance collaboration using classroom network technology. In F. Pozzi & D. Persico (Eds.), Techniques for fostering collaboration in online learning communities: Theoretical and practical perspectives (pp. 224-244). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

2000-2009

Schlager, M., Farooq, U., Fusco, J., Schank, P., & Dwyer, N. (2009). Analyzing online teacher networks: Cyber networks require cyber-research tools. Journal of Technology Education, 60(1), 86-100.

Wise, A., Schank, P., Stanford, T., & Horsma, G. (2009). The science behind nanosunscreens: Learning about nanoparticulate ingredients used to block the sun's ultraviolet rays. The Science Teacher, 76(6).

Michalchik, V., Kozma, R., Rosenquist, A., & Schank, P. (2008). Representational resources for constructing shared understandings in the high school chemistry classroom. In J. Gilbert, M. Nakhleh, & M. Reiner (eds.). Visualization: Theory and practice in science education, pp. 233-282. New York: Springer.

Ranney, M., Rinne, L., Yarnall, L., Munnich, E., Miratrix, L., & Schank, P. (2008). Designing and assessing numeracy training for journalists: Toward improving quantitative reasoning among media consumers. In P A. Kirschner, F. Prins, V. Jonker, & G. Kanselaar (Eds.), International Perspectives in the Learning Sciences: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference for the Learning Sciences, Volume 2 (pp. 2-246-2-253). International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc.

Quellmalz, E., Barger, A., Haertel, G., Schank, P., Buckley, B., Gobert, J., Horwitz, P., & Ayala, C. (2008). Exploring the role of technology-based simulations in science assessment: The Calipers project. In Coffey, Douglas, & Sterns (Eds.), Assessing science learning: Perspectives from research and practice. NSTA Press.

NanoSense Curriculum Series (2007-2008):

Schank, P., Stanford, T., Wise, A., & Rosenquist, A. (2007). Size Matters: Introduction to Nanoscience. NanoSense Curriculum Series. Menlo Park: SRI International

Wise, A., Stanford, T., Schank, P., & Rosenquist, A. (2008). Clear Sunscreen: How Light Interacts with Matter. NanoSense Curriculum Series. Menlo Park: SRI International

Rosenquist, A., Stanford, T., Wise, A., & Schank, P.(2008). Clean Energy: Converting Light into Electricity. NanoSense Curriculum Series. Menlo Park: SRI International

Stanford, T., Wise, A., Schank, P., & Rosenquist, A. (2008). Fine Filters: Filtering Solutions for Clean Water. NanoSense Curriculum Series. Menlo Park: SRI International

Farooq, U., Schank, P., Harris, A., Fusco, J. & Schlager, M. (2007). Sustaining a community computing infrastructure for online teacher professional development: A case study of designing Tapped In. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 16(4-5), 397-429. Norwell, MA: Klewer Academic Publishers.

Schank, P., Krajcik, J., & Yunker, M. (2007). Can nanoscience be a catalyst for education reform? In F. Allhoff, P. Lin, J. Moor, J. Weckert (Eds.), Nanoethics: The ethical and social implications of nanotechnology. Hobeken, NJ: Wiley Publishing.

Schank, P., & Wise, A. (2006). Introducing high school students to nanoscale science. Forum on Education of The American Physical Society Summer 2006 Newsletter.

Hamel, L., & Schank, P. (2006). A Wizard for PADI Assessment Design. PADI Technical Report 11. Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Hamel, L., & Schank, P. (2005). Participatory, Example-based Data Modeling in PADI. PADI Technical Report 3, Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Sabelli, N., Schank, P., Rosenquist, A., Stanford, T., Patton, C., Cormia, R., & Hurst, K.. (2005). Report of the workshop on science and technology education at the nanoscale. Technical Report, Menlo Park, CA: SRI International.

Roschelle, J., Schank, P, Brecht, J., Tatar, D., & Chaudhury, S. R. (2005). From response systems to distributed systems for enhanced collaborative learning. Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education. (pp. 363-370). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press.

Schank, P. & Hamel, L. (2004). Collaborative Modeling: Hiding UML and Promoting Data Examples in NEMo. Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (pp. 574-577). New York, NY: ACM Press.

Hamel, L., Haertel, G., Kennedy, C., Mislevy, R., Risconscente, M., & Schank, P. (2003). Principled Assessment Design for Inquiry (PADI) object model documentation. PADI Technical Report. SRI International, Menlo Park, CA.

Vermaat, H., Kramers-Pals, H., & Schank, P. (2003). The Use of Animations in Chemical Education. Proceedings of the International Convention of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, pp. 430-441. Anaheim, CA.

Schank, P., Harris, A., & Schlager, M.S. (2002). Painting a Landscape onto TAPPED IN 2. Presented to the "The Role of Place in Shaping Virtual Community" workshop at the Computer Supported Cooperative Work Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 16-20, 2002.

Schank, P., & Kozma, R. (2002). Learning Chemistry Through the Use of a Representation-Based Knowledge Building Environment. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 21(3), 253-279.

Schlager, M.S., Fusco, J., & Schank, P. (2002). Evolution of an On-line Community. In K. Renninger and W. Schumar (Eds.), Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in the Cyberspace, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 129-158.

Diehl, C., Ranney, M., & Schank, P. (2001). Model-based feedback supports reflective activity in collaborative argumentation. In P. Dillenbourg, A. Eurelings, & K. Hakkarainen (Eds.), European perspectives on computer-supported collaborative learning (pp. 189-196) [Proceedings of the First European Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning], Netherlands: Universiteit Maastricht.

1990-1999

Schank, P., Fenton, J., Schlager, M., & Fusco, J. (1999). From MOO to MEOW: Domesticating technology for online communities. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (pp. 518-526). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kozma, R., & Schank, P. (1998). Connecting with the twenty-first century: Technology in support of education reform. In D. Palumbo and C. Dede (Eds.), Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development 1998 Yearbook: Learning and Technology, pp. 3-27. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Ranney, M. & Schank, P. (1998). Toward an integration of the social and the scientific: Observing, modeling, and promoting the explanatory coherence of reasoning. In S. Read and L. Miller (Eds.), Connectionist models of social reasoning and social behavior (pp. 245-274). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Schlager, M., Fusco, J., & Schank, P. (1998). Cornerstones for an on-line community of education professionals.IEEE Technology and Society, Special Issue on Computers in the Classroom: The Internet in K-12, 17 (4), 15-21, 40.

Schlager, M., & Schank, P. (1997). Tapped In: A new on-line community concept for the next generation of Internet technology. In R. Hall, N. Miyake & N. Enyedy (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computer Support for Collaborative Learning, pp. 231-240. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Kozma, R., & Schank, P. (1997). Virtual Places for Collaborative Science Simulations. in BioQuest Notes, spring 1997.

Schank, P. & Schlager, M. (1996). Facilitating Collaborative Problem Solving with Distant Mentor. CSCW '96 Videos, Demonstrations, and Short Papers, 7-8.

Schank, P. & Schlager, M. (1996). Assessing and supporting remote collaborative problem solving. Proc. 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, pp. 835.

Schlager, M., Schank, P, & Means, B. (1996). Assessing the Impact of Distant Mentor: A System for Supporting Remote Collaborative Problem Solving. SRI International final technical report, SRI Project #4232.

Pirolli, P., Schank, P., Hearst, M., & Diehl, C. (1996). Scatter/Gather browsing communicates the topic structure of a very large text collection. Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI '96, 213-220. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Diehl, C., Ranney, M., & Schank, P. (1995). Multiple representations for improving scientific thinking. Report No. TP-024-671, ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 392 842; pp. 1-36.

Ranney, M., & Schank, P. (1995). Protocol modeling, bifurcation/bootstrapping, and Convince Me: Computer-based methods for studying beliefs and their revision. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 27, 239-243.

Ranney, M., Schank, P., & Diehl, C. (1995). Competence Versus Performance in Critical Reasoning: Reducing the Gap by Using Convince Me. Psychology Teaching Review, 4, 2, 151-164.

Schank, P. (1995). Computational tools for modeling and aiding reasoning: Assessing and applying the Theory of Explanatory Coherence. (Doctoral dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1995). Dissertation Abstracts International. [Won the 1995 Outstanding Dissertation Award from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education.]

Schank, P, & Ranney, M. (1995). Improved reasoning with Convince Me. Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI '95 Conference Companion, 276-277. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Hoadley, C., Ranney, M., & Schank, P. (1994). WanderECHO: A connectionist simulation of limited coherence. Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 421-426, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Ranney, M., Schank, P., & Diehl, C. (1994). Reducing the competence/performance gap with Convince Me, the reasoner's workbench. In A. Trapp & N. Hammond (Eds.), Computers in Psychology Handbook, 54-56. York, England: CTI Centre For Psychology, University of York.

Ranney, M., Schank, P., Hoadley, C., & Neff, J. (1994). "I know one when I see one": How (much) do hypotheses differ from evidence? In R. Fidel, B. H. Kwasnik, C. Beghtol, & P. J.Smith (Eds.) Advances in classification research: Vol. 5. (ASIS Monograph Series; pp. 141-158, etc.) Medford, NJ: Learned Information. [An earlier version appeared in the (October, 1994) Proceedings of the Fifth American Society for Information Science SIG/CR Workshop on Classification Research (pp. 139-156, etc.).]

Schank, P., Ranney, M., & Hoadley, C. (1994, 1995, 1999). Convince Me [Computer program and manual]. In J.R. Jungck, N. Peterson, & J.N. Calley (Eds.), The BioQUEST Library. College Park, MD: Academic Software Development Group, University of Maryland. [See also The Convince Me Web Site.]

Schank, P., Ranney, M., Hoadley, C., Diehl, C., & Neff, J. (1994). A reasoner's workbench for improving scientific thinking: Assessing Convince Me. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Mathematics/Science Education and Technology. Charlottesville, VA: AACE.

Ranney, M., Schank, P., Mosmann, A., & Montoya, G. (1993). Dynamic explanatory coherence with competing beliefs: Locally coherent reasoning and a proposed treatment. In T.-W. Chan (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers in Education: Applications of Intelligent Computer Technologies (pp. 101-106).

Schank, P. & Ranney, M. (1993). Can reasoning be taught? Educator, 7 (1), 16-21. [Special issue on Cognitive Science and Education].

Schank, P., and Rowe, L. (1993). The design and assessment of a hypermedia course on semiconductor manufacturing. Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2 (3), 299-320.

Schank, P., Linn, M., & Clancy, M. (1993). Supporting Pascal programming with an on-line template library and case studies. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies, 38, 1031-1048.

Schank, P., and Ranney, M. (1992). Assessing explanatory coherence: A new method for integrating verbal data with models of on-line belief revision. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 599-604. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. [David Marr Memorial Prize was awarded to the first author for this article.]

Schank, P., and Ranney, M. (1991). The psychological fidelity of ECHO: Modeling an experimental study of explanatory coherence. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 892-897. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.