Doug Lombardi

LinkedIn URL
https://twitter.com/lombardi_learn
Professional Title
Associate Professor
Organization/Institution
University of Maryland (UMD)
About Me (Bio)
Doug Lombardi is a Professor, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology, and Dean for Faculty Affairs, College of Education, University of Maryland. As the head of the Science Learning Research Group (http://sciencelearning.net), he conducts research examining reasoning and critical thinking about knowledge claims. Much of this research is situated within the context of formal classroom settings and focuses on effective teaching tools and strategies to support deep learning, particularly about scientific topics that pose local, regional, and global challenges (e.g., causes of current climate change, availability of freshwater resources). Doug has recently received early career research awards from the American Educational Research Association’s Division C (Learning and Instruction), American Psychological Association’s Division 15 (Educational Psychology), and NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning Through Research. His research and theoretical positions have been published in journals such as Educational Psychologist, Science Education, Contemporary Educational Psychology, and Learning & Instruction.
Personal Website
Science Learning Research Group
Keywords
Earth Science
Environmental Science
Broadening Participation
Disciplinary Content Knowledge
Pedagogy
Research
Citations of DRK-12 or Related Work (DRK-12 work is denoted by *)
  • 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. doi: 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. doi: 10.1002/sce.21315.*
  • Lombardi, D. (2016). Beyond the controversy: Instructional scaffolds to promote critical evaluation and understanding of Earth science. The Earth Scientist, 32(2), 5-10.*
  • Lombardi, D., Brandt, C. B., Bickel, E. S., & Burg, C. (2016). Students’ evaluations about climate change. International Journal of Science Education, 38(8), 1392-1414. doi: 10.1080/09500693.2016.1193912.*
  • 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. [re-posted on Psych Learning Curve, March 11, 2019, http://psychlearningcurve.org/thinking-scientifically-in-a-changing-wor…].*

Developing Critical Evaluation as a Scientific Habit of Mind: Instructional Scaffolds for Secondary Earth and Space Sciences

Temple University
09/01/2013

This exploratory project develops and tests graphical scaffolds which facilitate high school students' coordination of connecting evidence with alternative explanations of particular phenomena, as well as their collaborative argumentation about these phenomena. At the same time, the project examines how high school students use these tools to construct scientifically accurate conceptions about major topics in Earth and space sciences and deepens their abilities to be critically evaluative in the process of scientific inquiry.

Engaging Students in Scientific Practices: Evaluating Evidence and Explanation in Secondary Earth and Space Science

University of Maryland (UMD)
09/01/2017

This project will develop, implement, test, and revise instructional approaches and materials for high school students that focus on the links between scientific evidence and alternative explanations of phenomena relating to Earth and space education. Students will learn to construct diagrams showing the links between explanatory models of natural phenomena and lines of evidence, and then evaluate the plausibility of various alternative explanations for events.

Scaffolding Middle and High School Students’ Scientific Evaluations of Sources and Alternative Claims in Earth and Environmental Sciences (Collaborative Research: Lombardi)

University of Maryland (UMD)
09/01/2022

This project addresses tools to support students in reading and evaluating a variety of sources to compare various claims addressing socioscientific issues. It draws on literacy concepts from science education and social studies to develop and implement scaffolding tools that can support students' understanding of the links among data, evidence, and claims while considering the trustworthiness and plausibility of sources. The project will design and test such instructional scaffolds with the goal of helping middle and high school science and social studies students to deepen their evaluation skills as they make reasoned evaluations as expected of citizens in a functional democratic society.