Katherine L. McNeill

Katherine L. McNeill

Boston College

H-index: 41

North America-United States

About Katherine L. McNeill

Katherine L. McNeill, With an exceptional h-index of 41 and a recent h-index of 36 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Boston College, specializes in the field of science education, science practices, curriculum, professional development.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Eliciting Initial Ideas, Building Understandings, and Coming to Consensus: Using Different Teacher Moves for Distinct Discussion Types

Changes in teachers' beliefs: A longitudinal study of science teachers engaging in storyline curriculum‐based professional development

An Exploration of Beginning Science Teacher Orientations Toward Social Justice:“What Does It Mean to Teach?”

Professional development to support principals' vision of science instruction: Building from their prior experiences to support the science practices

Anchoring Science Professional Learning in Curriculum Materials Enactment: Illustrating Theories in Practice to Support Teachers' Learning

Planning for student-driven discussions: A revelatory case of curricular sensemaking for epistemic agency

“Some of You Are Smiling Now” Supporting Trust, Risk Taking, and Equity in Your Classroom

Considering discussion types to support collective sensemaking during a storyline unit

Katherine L. McNeill Information

University

Position

Professor of Science Education.

Citations(all)

9526

Citations(since 2020)

4805

Cited By

6516

hIndex(all)

41

hIndex(since 2020)

36

i10Index(all)

69

i10Index(since 2020)

58

Email

University Profile Page

Boston College

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Katherine L. McNeill Skills & Research Interests

science education

science practices

curriculum

professional development

Top articles of Katherine L. McNeill

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Eliciting Initial Ideas, Building Understandings, and Coming to Consensus: Using Different Teacher Moves for Distinct Discussion Types

Science Scope

Kevin Cherbow

Benjamin R Lowell

Kris Grymonpre

Katherine L McNeill

Renee Affolter

2024/3/3

Changes in teachers' beliefs: A longitudinal study of science teachers engaging in storyline curriculum‐based professional development

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Benjamin R Lowell

Katherine L McNeill

2023/9

An Exploration of Beginning Science Teacher Orientations Toward Social Justice:“What Does It Mean to Teach?”

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Lisa M Marco-Bujosa

Katherine L McNeill

Audrey A Friedman

2023/10/27

Professional development to support principals' vision of science instruction: Building from their prior experiences to support the science practices

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Katherine L McNeill

Rebecca Lowenhaupt

Kevin Cherbow

Benjamin R Lowell

2022/1

Anchoring Science Professional Learning in Curriculum Materials Enactment: Illustrating Theories in Practice to Support Teachers' Learning

Katherine L McNeill

Renee Affolter

Brian J Reiser

2022/9/13

Planning for student-driven discussions: A revelatory case of curricular sensemaking for epistemic agency

Journal of the Learning Sciences

Kevin Cherbow

Katherine L McNeill

2022/5/27

“Some of You Are Smiling Now” Supporting Trust, Risk Taking, and Equity in Your Classroom

Science Scope

Renee Affolter

Katherine L McNeill

Gretchen Brinza

2022/5/1

Considering discussion types to support collective sensemaking during a storyline unit

Journal of Research in Science Teaching

Benjamin R Lowell

Kevin Cherbow

Katherine L McNeill

2022/2

Redesign or relabel? How a commercial curriculum and its implementation oversimplify key features of the NGSS

Science Education

Benjamin R Lowell

Kevin Cherbow

Katherine L McNeill

2021/1

How Science Teachers DiALoG Classrooms: Towards a Practical and Responsive Formative Assessment of Oral Argumentation

Journal of Science Education and Technology

J Bryan Henderson

Nicole Zillmer

April Holton

Steven Weiner

Eric Greenwald

...

2021/12

Shifting from learning about to figuring out: PD resources to support classroom change

Science Scope

Katherine L Mcneill

Renee Affolter

Michael Clinchot

2021/11/1

The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Implementing K-8 Science Practices

Rebecca Lowenhaupt

Katherine L McNeill

Rebecca Katsh-Singer

Ben Lowell

Benjamin R Lowell

...

2021/10/25

Developing research-based instructional materials to support large-scale transformation of science teaching and learning: The approach of the OpenSciEd middle school program

Journal of Science Teacher Education

Daniel C Edelson

Brian J Reiser

Katherine L McNeill

Audrey Mohan

Michael Novak

...

2021/10/3

Becoming an urban science teacher: How beginning teachers negotiate contradictory school contexts

Journal of research in science teaching

Lisa M Marco‐Bujosa

Katherine L McNeill

Audrey A Friedman

2020/1

Acting with epistemic agency: Characterizing student critique during argumentation discussions

Science Education

María González‐Howard

Katherine L McNeill

2020/11

An analysis of science instruction for the science practices: Examining coherence across system levels and components in current systems of science education in K‐8 schools

Science Education

Kevin Cherbow

Megan T McKinley

Katherine L McNeill

Rebecca Lowenhaupt

2020/5

A case study exploring the identity of an in-service elementary science teacher: A language teacher first

Research in Science Education

Lisa Marco-Bujosa

Abigail Jurist Levy

Katherine McNeill

2020/2

Bridging Research and Practice to Implement Change in Teaching and Learning at Scale

Daniel C Edelson

Brian J Reiser

Katherine L McNeill

Renee Affolter

Andrew E Krumm

...

2020

Using the student hat to push on multiple goals in teacher professional learning

Benjamin R Lowell

Katherine L McNeill

2020

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Co-Authors

H-index: 95
Joseph Krajcik

Joseph Krajcik

Michigan State University

H-index: 59
Brian J. Reiser

Brian J. Reiser

Northwestern University

H-index: 25
Leema Berland

Leema Berland

University of Wisconsin-Madison

H-index: 23
Carla Zembal-Saul

Carla Zembal-Saul

Penn State University

H-index: 17
Matthew A. Cannady

Matthew A. Cannady

University of California, Berkeley

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