Marci S. DeCaro

Psychology · Social Sciences

20h-index2.0kcitations78works1.82yr avg
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Research Topics

Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods(19), Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes(12), Creativity in Education and Neuroscience(10), Innovative Teaching Methods(9), Cognitive Abilities and Testing(9)

Publications78 total

Using Games as an Exploratory-Learning Activity before Instruction to Teach Students how to Cooperatively Govern Shared Resources
Murray State's Digital Commons (Murray State University)·2026
Collaborative virtual learning factory for advanced manufacturing: investigating user experience and team dynamics
Manufacturing Letters·2025
Active Learning Increases Gateway Engineering Course Outcomes and Closes Preparation Gap for Underrepresented Students
Journal for STEM Education Research·2025
Exploring Human-Human Teaming and Human-Machine Interaction in a Collaborative Virtual Learning Factory
2025· 1 cited
Flipping a simulation before instruction can improve students' learning, interest and perceived competence
British Journal of Educational Psychology·2025
Exploring Team Dynamics in Virtual Reality Environments
IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors·2025· 2 cited
Comparing effectiveness of exploratory learning activities given before instruction: generating multiple strategies vs. inventing one strategy
Instructional Science·2025· 6 cited
Increasing contrasting cases during exploration or practice problems given before or after instruction
Instructional Science·2024· 2 cited
Participation in a discipline-based education research project mitigates barriers and enhances drivers to teaching reform differently across faculty positions and departments
Cogent Education·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
WIP: Exploratory Learning Before Instruction on Python Error Messages: Looking Beyond the Learning Outcomes
2024· 1 cited
Learning from regulatory failure: How Ostrom’s restorative justice design principle helps naïve groups create wiser enforcement systems to overcome the tragedy of the commons
PLoS ONE·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Work in Progress: Exploring Before Instruction Using an Online GeoGebra Activity in Introductory Engineering Calculus
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Toward a Quantitative Engagement Monitor for STEM Education
2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Exploration with ellipses helps students learn transferrable isometric drawing skills
2024· 2 cited
Exploratory Learning in Engineering Programming
2023· 2 cited
Bringing exploratory learning online: problem-solving before instruction improves remote undergraduate physics learning
Frontiers in Education·2023· 8 citedOpen Access
Reconcilable Differences
2023· 1 cited
Enhancing learning from online video lectures: the impact of embedded learning prompts in an undergraduate physics lesson
Journal of Computing in Higher Education·2023· 10 cited
Playing a social dilemma game as an exploratory learning activity before instruction improves conceptual understanding.
Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Designing novel activities before instruction: Use of contrasting cases and a rich dataset
British Journal of Educational Psychology·2022· 15 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Sian L. Beilock(9), Raymond J. Chastain(8), Daniel A. DeCaro(6), Campbell R. Bego(6), Bethany Rittle‐Johnson(5), Charles A. Van Stockum(5), Robin D. Thomas(4), Jeffrey Hieb(4), Patricia Ralston(3), Emily R. Fyfe(3), Mareike B. Wieth(3), Phillip Newman(3), Linda Fuselier(3), David B. Bellinger(2), Joanna P. Weaver(2), Savannah M. Neace(2), Allison Hicks(2), Krista D. Carlson(2), Lianda Velić(2), Paul M. Salmon(2)