Kara Krinks 

• ED 2313 Schooling in America
• ED 3323 Planning for Learning
• ED 3636 Clinical Practice I
• ED 3273 Methods of Teaching Elementary Social Studies and Science
• EG 5423 Methods in STEM (graduate)

• K-12 science education
• Teacher preparation in secondary education
• Issues of diversity and equity in secondary schools
• Development of culturally responsive practices
• Mindsets in teaching candidates

PI for Lipscomb Noyce Scholars Program, National Science Foundation (NSF) Robert Noyce Teaching Scholarship Program Grant (2020 to present).

Krinks, K., Johnson, H., & Clark, D. B. (2018). Digital games in the science classroom: Leveraging internal and external scaffolds during game play. In D. Cvetkovic (Ed), Simulations and Gaming. Rijeka, Croatia: InTECH Open. ISBN 978-953-51-3800-6.

Krinks, K., Sengupta, P., & Clark D.B. (2019). Modeling Games in the K-12 Science Classroom. International Journal of Gaming and Computer Mediated Simulation.

Sengupta, P., Krinks, K., & Clark, D.B. (2015). Learning to deflect: Conceptual change in physics during digital game play. Journal of the Learning Sciences. 24(4), 638-674.

Clark, D.B., Virk, S., Sengupta, P., Brady, C., Martinez-Garza, M., Krinks, K., Killingsworth, S., Kinnebrew, J., Biswas, G., Barnes, J., Minstrell, J., Nelson, B., Slack, K., & D’Angelo, C. (2016). SURGE’s evolution deeper into formal representations: The siren’s call of popular game-play mechanics. International Journal of Designs for Learning. 7(1), 107-146.

Kinnebrew, J., Killingsworth, S., Clark, D.B., Biswas, G., Sengupta, P., Minstrell, J., Martinez-Garza, M., & Krinks, K., (2015). Contextual Markup and Mining in Digital Games for Science Learning: Connecting Player Behaviors to Learning Goals. IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies.

Krinks, K. and Delgado, L. (2021). Lessons learned from a simulations project to develop critically conscious pre-service teachers. Presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (virtual).

Krinks, K. (2021). Making Room for Caitlin: Using Simulations to Prepare Preservice Science Teachers to Respond to Competing Tensions in a Classroom. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Science Teacher Educators (virtual).

Krinks, K., Johnson, H., & Clark, D. (2018). Digital games in the science classroom: Leveraging internal and external scaffolds during game play. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Research in Science, Atlanta.

Krinks, K., Sengupta, P. & Clark, D. (2015). Benchmark Lessons: Integrating Modeling with Games for Learning Physics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Chicago.

Krinks, K., Sengupta, P. & Clark, D. (2015). Benchmark Lessons: Integrating Modeling with Games for Learning Physics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.

Sengupta, P., Killingsworth, S., Krinks, K., Brady, C. & Clark, D. (2014). Integrating Modeling with Games for Learning Newtonian Mechanics. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Conference for Learning Sciences, Boulder, CO.

Krinks, K. & Sengupta, P. (2013). Conceptual Change in Physics through Use of Digital Games. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching, Puerto Rico.

Clark, D.B., Krinks, K., Kinnebrew, J., Sengupta, P., Hughes, J., Martinez-Garza, M., Killingsworth, S., Biswas, G., Van Eaton, G., & Zhang, H. (2013). Design Matters: Research on Game Design for Science Learning. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching, Rio Grande, Puerto Rico.

Krinks, K., & Sengupta, P. (2012). Rethinking Expertise in Physics: An Investigation of Expertise in High School Physics Teachers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, Canada.

Krinks, K., & Sengupta, P. (2012). Rethinking Expertise in Physics: An Investigation of Expertise in High School Physics Teachers. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the National Association of Research in Science Teaching, Indianapolis.