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D-Index
60
Citations
18093
World Ranking
3488
National Ranking
1962

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 1983 - Review of Research Award, American Educational Research Association

Overview

Deborah Stipek is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has contributed to the field of psychology through research across several subfields. Their main focus areas span experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, and applied psychology.

Their research involvement includes work on topics related to education, achievement, and giftedness, as well as motivation and self-concept in sports. Additionally, they have addressed aspects of behavioral health and interventions within their studies.

  • Psychology

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Psychology

  • Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
  • Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions

Deborah Stipek has been recognized with awards including the Review of Research Award from the American Educational Research Association in 1983. Later, in 2008, they were named a Fellow of the same association.

Best Publications

  • Promoting Conceptual Thinking in Four Upper-Elementary Mathematics Classrooms:

    Elham Kazemi;Deborah Stipek

  • Motivation to Learn: From Theory to Practice

    Deborah J. Stipek

  • Teachers' beliefs and practices related to mathematics instruction

    Deborah J Stipek;Karen B Givvin;Julie M Salmon;Valanne L MacGyvers

  • Developmental change in children's assessment of intellectual competence

    Deborah Stipek;Douglas Mac Iver

  • Self-Evaluation in Young Children

    Deborah Stipek;Susan Recchia;Susan McClintic

  • Perceived Personal Control and Academic Achievement

    Deborah J. Stipek;John R. Weisz

  • Effects of Different Instructional Approaches on Young Children's Achievement and Motivation

    Deborah Stipek;Rachelle Feiler;Denise Daniels;Sharon Milburn

  • Children's beliefs about intelligence and school performance.

    Deborah Stipek;J. Heidi Gralinski

  • Contemporaneous and longitudinal associations between social behavior and literacy achievement in a sample of low-income elementary school children.

    Sarah B. Miles;Deborah Stipek

  • Motivation and instruction.

    Deborah J. Stipek

  • Early childhood education teachers: Do they practice what they preach?

    Deborah J. Stipek;Patricia Byler

  • Motivation to Learn: Integrating Theory and Practice

    Deborah J. Stipek

  • Economically disadvantaged preschoolers: Ready to learn but further to go.

    Deborah J. Stipek;Rosaleen H. Ryan

  • Low-Income Parents' Beliefs About their Role in Children's Academic Learning.

    Kathryn V. Drummond;Deborah Stipek

  • Gender differences in children's achievement-related beliefs and emotional responses to success and failure in mathematics.

    Deborah J. Stipek;J. Heidi Gralinski

  • When Teachers' and Parents' Values Differ: Teachers' Ratings of Academic Competence in Children from Low-Income Families

    Penny Hauser-Cram;Selcuk R. Sirin;Deborah Stipek

  • The Value (and Convergence) of Practices Suggested by Motivation Research and Promoted by Mathematics Education Reformers.

    Deborah Stipek;Julie M. Salmon;Karen B. Givvin;Elham Kazemi

  • Young children's feelings about school.

    Tricia N. Valeski;Deborah J. Stipek

  • The Emergence of Gender Differences in Children's Perceptions of Their Academic Competence.

    Jennifer Herbert;Deborah Stipek

  • Motivation to learn

    Deborah J. Stipek

Frequent Co-Authors

John R. Weisz
John R. Weisz Harvard University
Katherine Nelson
Katherine Nelson City University of New York
Bernard Weiner
Bernard Weiner University of California, Los Angeles
Deborah A. Phillips
Deborah A. Phillips Georgetown University
Dale C. Farran
Dale C. Farran Vanderbilt University
Connie Kasari
Connie Kasari University of California, Los Angeles
Edward Zigler
Edward Zigler Yale University
Michael E. Lamb
Michael E. Lamb University of Cambridge
Marian Sigman
Marian Sigman University of California, Los Angeles

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