Liverpool Hope University

Faculty Member, Education

Lecturer (Education Studies/ Mathematics)

Thesis Title: Students' approaches to mathematical tasks using software as a black-box, glass-box or open-box

About

I have joined the Liverpool Hope Faculty recently and would be teaching mathematics and education courses. I would thus have the opportunity to once again research mathematics understanding amongst undergraduate students.

I was also a Research Assistant on the Net Generation project sponsored by the ESRC at the Open University (Team Leader: Chris Jones). We looked at the way HE students from the Net Generation and non-Net Generation use technological tools for learning and leisure.

I am interested in understanding how students learn mathematics when using software. My main interests lie in understanding students' learning through cognitive psychology and investigating how attitudes may influence learning. In particular, I've used theories related to self-explanation, deep/surface learning and self-confidence.

I am also hoping to develop research proposals in the future into how software, gaming or other technologies can aid students learning of mathematics (both informal or formal).

Otherwise than my interest in mathematics, I have conducted a number of internet-oriented research such as online surveys. The most noteworthy purely internet data collection is the audio/video recording of students' interaction with software through a method/protocol I tested and called web-conferencing remote observation. This requires using webcams, microphones and application sharing software.

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