Dr. Math's Education Web site

Welcome to my web page. I am an associate professor of mathematics education with research interests in quantitative methods as they apply in mathematics education, the role of representation in mathematical sense making, and assessment of teaching and learning. I have had numerous requests for information about my T&P process and the feedback along the way. I have decided to provide links to my third-year review candidate statement, my T&P candidate statement, and the feedback from outside reviewers, department, college, and the letter from the president. Feel free to examine the documents. Most recently, I was invited to be a visiting scholar at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton NJ. A little ancient history, in 2003, I received the Montague Scholar Award for undergraduate teaching and in 2004 I earned the post of Associate Editor for the American Educational Research Journal. The associate editor post was in conjunction with the appointment of Bruce Thompson, Yvonna Lincoln, and Stephanie Knight co-editors, and Cathleen Loving and Hector Ochoa associate editors. We served as the editorial team through 2007. In 2006, I earned the post of associate editor of the School Science and Mathematics journal with Dr. Gerald Kulm as editor.

I have been a faculty researcher and Co-PI on several funded projects. I was a researcher on a sub-contract to the American Association for the Advancement of Science grant from the Inter-agency Educational Research Initiative. It was a five-year project lasting until 2007 and resulted in our Middle School Mathematics Project. In August 2006, I became a co-principal investigator with Dr. Scott Slough and principal investigator Dr. Jim Scheurich on a 1.4 million dollar Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics grant. My appointment and confirmation to National Middle School Association's Research Advisory Board was approved November 2006 and extends until 2009. I was invited to the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, NJ for a summer fellowship in 2007. I am a Co-PI with Chance Lewis and Steve Carpenter on the 350K (through 2010) grant New Traditions - - things have been quite busy lately. December 2007, I was appointed to be the new Assistant Department Head for Research and Mentoring.

I am on faculty development leave, starting January 2009, I will be spending the majority of my spring semester at Rutgers working with the scholars on affective representations in the final stages of the MetroMath Project and examining the relationship between mathematics innovations and student achievement across studies at Johns Hopkins. I will be a guest lecturer at Bogaziçi University in Turkey and Università Degli Studi di Siena. Rounding out my travels I will be an invited speaker in Prague, CZ

If you are interested in attending graduate school please contact me so we can talk about the benefits of attending Texas A&M with an emphasis in Mathematics Education.