Land Science
Nash, P., Bagley, E.A., & Shaffer, D.W. (2012). Playing for public interest: Epistemic games as civic
engagement activities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association.
Vancouver, BC.
Nash, P. & Shaffer, D.W. (2012). Epistemic youth development: Educational games as youth development
activities. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Vancouver,
BC.
Bagley, E. & Shaffer, D.W. (2011). Promoting civic thinking through epistemic game play. In R. Ferdig (Ed.),
Discoveries in gaming and computer-mediated simulations: New interdisciplinary applications, (pp.
111-127). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Bagley, E. (2010). The epistemography of an urban and regional planning practicum: Appropriation in the face of
resistance. WCER Working Paper 2010-8. Wisconsin Center for Education Research, University of
Wisconsin-Madison.
Bagley, E. & Shaffer, D.W. (2009). When people get in the way: Promoting civic thinking through epistemic
game play. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations 1(1):
36-52.
Beckett, K. & Shaffer, D.W. (2005). Augmented by reality: The pedagogical praxis of urban planning as a
pathway to ecological thinking. Journal of Educational Computing Research 33(1): 31-52.
Nephrotex
Arastoopour, G., Chesler, N. C., & Shaffer, D. W. (2014). Epistemic persistence: A simulation-based approach
to increasing participation of women in engineering. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and
Engineering, 20(3): 211-234.
Chesler, N., Arastoopour, G., D’Angelo, C.M., Bagley, E., & Shaffer, D.W. (2013). Design of a professional
practice simulator for educating and motivating first-year engineering students. Advances in Engineering
Education 3(3): 1-29.
Arastoopour, G., Chesler, N., D’Angelo, C.M., Opgenorth, J., Reardan, C., Haggerty, N., Lepak, C., &
Shaffer, D.W. (2013). Epistemic persistence: A simulation-based approach for increasing women in engineering.
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco,
CA.
Arastoopour, G. & Shaffer, D.W. (2013). Measuring social identity development in epistemic games. Paper
presented at the International Conference on Computer Supported Learning. Madison, WI.
Arastoopour, G., Chesler, N., D’Angelo, C., Shaffer, D.W., Opgenorth, J., Reardan, C., Haggerty, N., &
Lepak, C. (2012). Nephrotex: Measuring first-year students’ ways of professional thinking in a virtual
internship. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Engineering Education. San Antonio,
TX.
Shaffer, D.W., Chesler, N., Arastoopour, G., & D’Angelo, C.M. (2011). Nephrotex: Teaching first-year
students how to think like engineers. Poster presented at the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement PI
Conference. Washington, D.C.
D’Angelo, C.M., Arastoopour, G., Chesler, N., & Shaffer, D.W. (2011). Collaborating in a virtual engineering
internship. Paper presented at the Computer Supported Collaborative Learning Conference. Hong Kong,
China.
Chesler, N., D’Angelo, C.M., Arastoopour, G., & Shaffer, D.W. (2011). Use of professional practice
simulation in a first-year introduction to engineering course. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the
American Society for Engineering Education. Vancouver, BC.
D’Angelo, C.M., Shaffer, D.W., & Chesler, N. (2011). Undergraduate engineers engaging and reflecting in a
professional practice simulation. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Engineering
Education. Vancouver, BC.
Chesler, N., Bagley, E., Breckenfeld, E., West, D., & Shaffer, D.W. (2010). A virtual hemodialyzer design
project for first-year engineers: An epistemic game approach. Paper presented at the American Society of Medical
Engineers Bioengineering Conference. Naples, FL.
Chesler, N., Bagley, E., & Shaffer, D.W. (2010). Professional practice simulations for engaging, educating,
and assessing undergraduate engineers. Paper presented at the International Conference of the Learning Sciences.
Chicago, IL.
RescuShell
Chesler, N.C., Ruis, A.R., Collier, W., Swiecki, Z., Arastoopour, G., & Shaffer, D.W. (2015). A novel
paradigm for engineering education: Virtual internships with individualized mentoring and assessment of
engineering thinking. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 137(2).
Arastoopour, G., Chesler, N.C., & Shaffer, D.W. (2014). Epistemic persistence: A simulation-based approach
to increasing participation of women in engineering. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and
Engineering, 20(3): 211-234.
Arastoopour, G., Swiecki, Z., Chesler, N.C., & Shaffer, D.W. (2015). Epistemic Network Analysis as a Tool
for Engineering Design Assessment. Paper presented at the American Society for Engineering Education. Seattle,
WA.
Arastoopour, G., Shaffer, D.W., Swiecki, Z., Ruis, A.R., & Chesler, N.C. (2015). Teaching and Assessing
Engineering Design Thinking with Virtual Internships and Epistemic Network Analysis. Paper presented at the
Harvey Mudd Design Workshop. Claremont, CA.
Arastoopour, G., & Shaffer, D.W. (2015). Epistemography and Professional CSCL Environment Design. Paper
presented at the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Gothenberg,
Sweden.