Gale Sinatra

Gale M. Sinatra
OccupationDistinguished Professor
Known forscience learning, motivation, conceptual change
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Massachusetts (B.A.,M.S., PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineEducational Psychology
Institutions USC · Rossier School of Education

Gale M. Sinatra is an American educational psychologist known for her leadership and research on climate science education, education psychology, and enhancing the public's interest of science. She was instrumental in developing the conceptual change learning model.[1] Sinatra is a distinguished professor of Psychology and the Stephen H. Crocker Chair of Education at the University of Southern California (USC). She is the Chair of the American Psychological Association (APA) Climate Change Task Force [2] and previously served as the President and Editor of APA's Division 15 journal, Educational Psychology. In 2022, Sinatra was awarded the Membership in the National Academy of Education, an award for researchers who have advanced policy and practice in their research.[3]

  1. ^ Sinatra, Gale M.; Pintrich, Paul R. (2003). ""The Role of intentions in conceptual change learning: Gale M. Sinatra and Paul R. Pintrich."". Intentional Conceptual Change: 10–26. doi:10.4324/9781410606716-5. ISBN 978-1-4106-0671-6.
  2. ^ "APA Climate Change Task Force members named". American Psychological Association. October 1, 2020.
  3. ^ "Seventeen Scholars Elected to Membership in the National Academy of Education". January 28, 2022.