| 2025 | CogSci | Using Exploratory Learning Methods to Challenge Sociopolitical Beliefs. | Sarah E. French, Daniel DeCaro, Marci S. DeCaro |
| 2025 | CogSci | Exploring a Problem Before Instruction Using Graphs versus Tables. | Lianda Velic, Marci S. DeCaro |
| 2024 | FIE | WIP: Exploratory Learning Before Instruction on Python Error Messages: Looking Beyond the Learning Outcomes. | Marci S. DeCaro, Angela Thompson, Lianda Velic, Cenetria Crockett, Campbell R. Bego |
| 2023 | FIE | Exploratory Learning in Engineering Programming. | Campbell R. Bego, Angela K. Thompson, Cenetria Crockett, Raymond J. Chastain, Jeffrey L. Hieb, Linda Fuselier, Ryan J. Patrick, Marci S. DeCaro |
| 2018 | CogSci | Cognition under Pressure: Relationships between Anxiety, Executive Functions, and Mathematics. | Emily McLaughlin Lyons, Lindsey E. Richland, Priti Shah, Amira Ibrahiam, Marci S. DeCaro, David B. Bellinger, Patricia Ralston, Susanne M. Jaeggi |
| 2018 | CogSci | How Much Support is Optimal during Exploratory Learning? | Phillip Newman, Marci S. DeCaro |
| 2018 | FIE | Multiple Representations in Physics: Deliberate Practice Does Not Improve Exam Scores. | Campbell R. Bego, Ramond J. Chastain, Lacee M. Pyles, Marci S. DeCaro |
| 2013 | CogSci | Achievement Motivation and Strategy Selection during Exploratory Learning. | Daniel DeCaro, Marci S. DeCaro, Bethany Rittle-Johnson |
| 2013 | CogSci | The Path Less Taken: When Working Memory Capacity Constrains Insight. | Charles Van Stockum, Marci S. DeCaro |