Corinne Zimmerman

Professor

Psychology

Office Phone

(309) 438-5215office
phone

czimmer@ilstu.eduemail

Website

www.ilstu.edu/~czimmer/website

About
Education
Research

Current Courses

499Independent Research For The Master's Thesis

327Cultural Psychology: Diversity and Identity Development

215Educational Psychology

392Senior Seminar

290Special Projects:Research Apprenticeship

Research Interests & Areas

Development of scientific reasoning; Scientific literacy; Students' understanding of scientific concepts; Inductive inference

Ph D Psychology

University of Alberta

Edmonton, Alberta

Other Psychology

University of Regina

Regina, Saskatchewan

Book, Chapter

Zimmerman, C. (2014). Developing scientific thinking in the context of video games: Where to next? In F. Blumberg (Ed.), Learning by playing: Frontiers of video gaming in education (pp. 54-68). Oxford University Press.

Zimmerman, C., & Pretz, J. (2012). The interaction of implicit versus explicit processing and problem difficulty in a scientific discovery task. In R. Proctor and J. Capaldi (Eds.), The Psychology of Science: Implicit and Explicit Processes (pp. 228-252). Oxford University Press.

Morris, B. J., Croker, S., Masnick, A. M., & Zimmerman, C. (2012). The emergence of scientific reasoning. In H. Kloos, B. J. Morris, & J. L. Amaral (Eds.), Current Topics in Children's Learning and Cognition. Rijeka, Croatia: InTech.

Zimmerman, C. & Croker, S. (2013). Learning science through inquiry. In G. Feist & M. Gorman (Eds.), Handbook of the Psychology of Science. Springer.

Conference Proceeding

Zimmerman, C. & Croker, S. (2014). Cognitive dynamics on the balance scale task. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3161-3166). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Journal Article

Shelvin, K. H., Rivadeneyra, R., & Zimmerman, C. (2014). Stereotype threat in African American children: The role of Black identity and stereotype awareness. International Review of Social Psychology, 27,175-204.

Zimmerman, C. & Croker, S. (2014). A prospective cognition analysis of scientific thinking and the implications for teaching and learning science. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 13, 245-257.

Morris, B.J., Croker, S., Zimmerman, C., Gill, D., & Romig, C. (2013). Gaming science: The “gamification” of scientific thinking. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, Article 607.doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00607

Klahr, D., Zimmerman, C., & Jirout, J. (2011). Educational interventions to advance children’s scientific thinking. Science, 333, 971-975.

Presentations

Ellis, M., Hund, A. M., & Zimmerman, C. (2022, April). Predictors of cross-racial sharing behavior in early childhood. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.