Dr. Shipley’s research broadly focuses on spatial cognition and learning. He applies formal methods from his previous research on object and event perception to understand the perceptual and cognitive processes subserving navigation and visualization. His recent work perception and learning in spatial visualization is part of a project that aims to support undergraduate geology education with a longer term goal of understanding the cognitive processes that are critical for spatial reasoning and thus support STEM education in general for both K-12 and undergraduate students.
Most Recent Publications:
LaDue, N.D., Ackerman, J., Blaum, D., Shipley, T.F., (on line February 27, 2021). Assessing Water Literacy: Undergraduate student conceptions of groundwater and surface water flow. Water, 13, 622;18 pages.
Lombardi, D., Shipley, T. F., Astronomy Team (Bailey, J. M, Bretones, P. S., Prather, E. E.), Biology Team (Ballen, C. J., Knight, J. K., Smith,, M. K.), Chemistry Team (Stowe, R. L., Cooper, M. M.), Engineering Team (Prince, M.), Geography Team (Atit, K., Uttal, D. H.), Geoscience Team (LaDue, N. D., McNeal, P. M., Ryker, K., St. John, K., van der Hoeven Kraft, K. J., & Physics Team (Docktor, J. L.) (in press). The curious construct of active learning. Psychological Science in the Public Interest. (IF 21.3)
Wilson, C.G., Davatzes, A., Shipley, T.F. (2020, September/October). Evidence of vulnerability to decision bias in expert field scientists. Applied Cognitive Psychology,34(5), 1217-1223. (IF 1.5)
Jaeger, A., Marzano, J., & Shipley, T.F., (2020, July/August). When seeing what’s wrong makes you right: The effect of erroneous examples on 3D diagram learning, Applied Cognitive Psychology (Special issue on Example-based learning), 844-861. DOI: 10.1002/acp.3671 (IF 1.5)
Harold, J., Lorenzoni, I., Shipley, T.F., Coventry, K., (2020, January; December on line). Communication of IPCC visuals: IPCC authors’ views and assessments of visual complexity. Climatic Change. 158(2), 255-270. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-019-02537-z (IF 4.2)
Nazareth, A., Newcombe, N., Shipley, T.F., Velazquez, M., & Weisberg, S., (2019, December), Beyond Wayfinding: Navigation Skills and Geoscience Education. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications,4 (4), 1-17. https://rdcu.be/bGFuw
Wilson, C. G., Bond, C. E., and Shipley, T. F., (2019, September) How can geologic decision-making under uncertainty be improved?, Solid Earth, 10, 1469–1488, https://doi.org/10.5194/se-10-1469-2019, 2019.
Shipley, T.F., & Tikoff, B., (2019, August). Collaboration, Cyberinfrastructure, and Cognitive Science: The role of databases and dataguides in 21st century Structural Geology. Journal of Structural Geology. 125 (August), 48-54. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2018.05.007
Brudzinski, M. R., Jaeger, A., Shipley, T.F., (2019, July). Challenges in making meaning from Ground Motion Visualizations: The role of geoscience knowledge in interpreting dynamic spatiotemporal patterns, Seismological Research Letters, 90 (4), 1692-1701
Rycroft, S.S., Giovannetti, T., Shipley, T.F., Hulswit, J., Divers, R., Reilly, J. (2018, December). Windows to Functional Decline: Naturalistic Eye Movements in Older and Younger Adults. Psychology and Aging 33(8), 1215-1222.
LaDue, N., & Shipley, T.F., (2018, November). Click-On-Diagram Questions: A New Tool to Study Conceptions using Classroom Response Systems. Journal of Science Education and Technology. 27(6), 492-507
McLaughlin, J., Holzer, M., Lombardi, D., Davatzes, A., Jaeger, A., Shipley, T.F. (2018, November). What’s Hidden Beneath? Using Spatial Sketching and Feedback to Help Deepen Students’ Understanding of Earth’s Subsurface The Science Teacher, 54-60. (November/December 2018)
Jaeger, A. J., Velazquez, M. N., Dawdanow, A., & Shipley, T. F. (2018, October). Sketching and summarizing to reduce memory for seductive details in science text. Journal of Educational Psychology, 110(7), 899-916.
Holmes, C., Newcombe, N.S., Shipley, T.F., (2018, September). Move to learn: Integrating spatial information from multiple viewpoints. Cognition, 178, 7-25.
Carbonell-Carrera, C., Jaeger,A.J.,. Shipley, T.F., (2018, May). 2D cartography training: Has the time come for a paradigm shift? ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7 (5), 197
Meyer, R., Davatzes, A., & Shipley, T.F., (2018, May). Reasoning about time from space: Visual continuity may disrupt reasoning about the passage of time within accreted materials. Journal of Geoscience Education. 66(2), 147-165.
Davatzes, A., Ganier, K., Resnick, I., & Shipley, T.F., (2018, February) “A Cycle of Prediction, Comparison, and Feedback Supports Spatial Learning in Geoscience” EOS, 99.
Resnick, I., Kastens, K., Shipley, T.F., (2018). How students reason about visualizations from large professionally collected data sets: A study of students approaching the threshold of data proficiency. Journal of Geoscience Education, 66, 1(February), 55-76.