Duncan Sibley

Duncan Sibley is a researcher affiliated with the Center for Research on College Science Teaching and Learning at Michigan State University. His work focuses on leveraging analogical reasoning to enhance metacognitive skills in non-science majors, particularly through geoscience education.

• Key Research Areas: Analogical reasoning, metacognition, geoscience pedagogy, and cognitive science applications in education.
• Methodology: Utilizes LON-CAPA and SPSS Text Analysis for evaluating student analogies, with a focus on similarity mapping and hypothesis testing.
• Educational Impact: Develops scoring rubrics to assess students' ability to draw scientific analogies, aiming to bridge everyday reasoning with geological concepts like residence time and rock cycles.