RESEARCH
INTERESTS
My research interests are on students’ problem-solving
disposition and instructional strategies to advance their ways of thinking. I
am particularly interested in students’ propensity to act out the first thing
that comes to mind, what I call impulsive disposition. My research goal centers
on helping students advance from impulsive disposition to analytic disposition.
My colleagues and I are currently developing, testing, and refining a survey
instrument to assess students’ impulsive-analytic disposition. I have been
investigating instructional strategies, such as use of prediction items and
classroom voting with clicker technology, to help students become aware of
their impulsivity as well as to elicit and address mathematical misconceptions.
I am also exploring the use of mathematical tasks to provoke students’
intellectual need for the concepts they are expected to learn. Lately, I am
involved in the iMPaCT-STEM project to investigate
the use of programming activities to foster student learning of foundational
algebraic concepts.
Updated on
January 19, 2012.
The more I know, the more I realize I
don’t know.
Albert Einstein
