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Kristina Tank

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2013
Science Education and PedagogyEngineering Education and PedagogyTeaching and Learning ProgrammingEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentScience Education and Perceptions

Publications

61

Citations

1,799

Est. group size

~1

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

14

Publishing since 2013

Research summary
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Kristina Tank's work focuses on how science and engineering are taught in K-12 and teacher-preparation settings, particularly at the elementary level. Her research examines how teachers integrate engineering design and computational thinking into science lessons, and how teacher-preparation programs can better prepare educators to teach these integrated STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) subjects.

Integrated STEM educationElementary engineering instructionPreservice teacher preparationScience and engineering practicesComputational thinking in education

Publication output was more active around 2017-2020 (with a peak in 2020) and has slowed to a lower, fairly steady rate of a few outputs per year since then.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 7 publications172018: 8 publications182019: 2 publications192020: 15 publications15202021: 2 publications212022: 2 publications222023: 1 publication232024: 2 publications242025: 3 publications252026: 3 publications26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Figshare×4
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)×3
  • International Journal of STEM Education×2
  • Early mathematics learning and development×2
  • Early Childhood Education Journal×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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