Science, Technology & Mathematics Education
Research Interests and Projects
Below is a list of research interests and projects within the STeM group. All the ongoing research at the Faculty can be found on the research projects page.
Communication and reasoning
- Communicating, learning and reasoning in science and mathematics education
- Development of early mathematical language
- Dialogic teaching and interactive whiteboards
- Dialogic teaching in science
- Effecting principled improvement in STEM education (epiSTEMe)
- Enhancing students' proof competencies in the secondary mathematics classrooms
- Inductive reasoning, proof and the design of generic examples
- Interactive whiteboards and collaborative pupil learning in primary science
Conceptual development
- Conceptual development and knowledge acquisition in science and mathematics
- Exploring conceptual learning, integration and progression in science education (ECLIPSE)
- Primary school children's tacit and explicit understanding of object motion
Curriculum and pedagogy
- Comparative research into models of mathematics teaching and learning
- Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment in mathematics and science education
- Effecting principled improvement in STEM education (epiSTEMe)
- Impact of beliefs on the teaching and learning of mathematics
- Philosophical analysis of rationales for mathematics teaching
Enrichment and enhancement
- Able pupils experiencing challenging science (APECS)
- Mathematics online enrichment project (NRICH)
- Online problem-solving communities
- Student engagement and learning in early secondary-school physical science and mathematics
Teacher thinking and development
- Content knowledge for teaching elementary school mathematics
- Eliciting situated expertise in ICT-integrated mathematics and science teaching (SETIT)
- Establishing a professional development network with an open-source dynamic mathematics software – GeoGebra
- Impact of beliefs on the teaching and learning of mathematics
- Mathematical knowledge in teaching (MKIT)
- Preservice teachers' challenges in beginning to teach mathematics: The activity of reasoning and proving
- Subject knowledge in mathematics teaching (SKIMA)
- Supporting opportunities for new teachers' professional growth
- Trainee teacher assessment values and practice
Technology use and integration
- Dialogic teaching and interactive whiteboards
- Eliciting situated expertise in ICT-integrated mathematics and science teaching (SETIT)
- Establishing a professional development network with an open-source dynamic mathematics software – GeoGebra
- Interactive whiteboards and collaborative pupil learning in primary science
- Online problem-solving communities
- Teacher mediation of secondary subject learning with projection technology (T-MEDIA)
- Technology use and integration in school mathematics and science