Richard E. Clark

Richard E. Clark is Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology and Technology in the Rossier School of Education and Emeritus Clinical Research Professor of Surgery in the Keck School of Medicine, at the University of Southern California. Their previous affiliations include University of Pennsylvania and Syracuse University. Dr. Clark’s research interests include areas in educational psychology including cognitive psychology, learning engineering, and instructional design. Books by Dr. Clark include Turning Research Into Results: A guide to selecting the right performance solutions (2012, Information Age Publishers), Learning from Media: Arguments, analysis and evidence (2008, Information Age Publishers) and Handling Complexity in Learning Environments: Research and Theory (Elsevier, 2006). They also co-authored the chapter Cognitive Task Analysis in Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology with David F. Feldon, Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer, Kenneth A. Yates, and Sean Early. 

• Paul A. Kirschner , John Sweller & Richard E. Clark (2006) Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work: An Analysis of the Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-Based, Experiential, and Inquiry-Based Teaching, Educational Psychologist, 41:2, 75-86, https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep4102_1

• Mimi Bong & Richard E. Clark (1999) Comparison between self-concept and self-efficacy in academic motivation research, Educational Psychologist, 34:3, 139-153, https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326985ep3403_1

• Jonassen, D., Spector, M.J., Driscoll, M., Merrill, M.D., van Merrienboer, J., & Driscoll, M.P. (Eds.). (2007). Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology: A Project of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (3rd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203880869

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