Psychology

Psychology

Handbooks, collection of papers, etc.

  • Anderson, J.R. (2011). Cognitive Psychology and Its Implications. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
  • Fischbein, E.(1987), Intuition in Science and Mathematics, Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Reidel.
  • Gutierrez, A. and Boero, Paolo (2006). Handbook of research on the psychology of mathematics education. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
  • Hadamard, J. (1945) An essay on the psychology of invention in the mathematical field. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Krutetskii, V. A. (1976). The psychology of mathematical abilities in schoolchildren (J. Kilpatrick & I. Wirszup, Eds.; J. Teller, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Tall, D. (2013). How humans learn to think mathematically. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wertheimer, M.  (1959). Productive Thinking.  New York: Harper.

 

Papers and chapters                

  • Fischbein, Efraim; Nello, Maria Sainati; Marino, Maria Sciolis (1991). Factors Affecting Probabilistic Judgements in Children and Adolescents. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 22(6), 523-549.
  • Hiebert, James, Carpenter, Thomas P. (1982). Piagetian tasks as readiness measures in mathematics instruction: A critical review. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 13(3), 329–345.
  • Leron, Uri and Hazzan, Orit. (2006). The Rationality Debate: Application of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 62(2), 105–126.
  • Novick, L. (1988). Analogical transfer, problem similarity, and expertise. Journal of Educational Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 14(3), 510–520.
  • Novick, L. (1990). Representational transfer in problem solving. Psychological Science, 1(2), 128–132.
  • Schoenfeld, A. H. (1992). Learning to think mathematically: Problem solving, metacognition, and sense making in mathematics. In D. A. Grouws (Ed.), Handbook of research on mathematics teaching and learning (pp. 334–370). New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
  • Sfard, Anna. (1991). On the dual nature of mathematical conceptions: Reflections on processes and objects as different sides of the same coin. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 22(1), 1-36.                         
  • Vinner, S.(1997). The pseudo-conceptual and the pseudo-analytical thought processes in mathematics learning. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 34, 97–129.

 

Faculty publications

  • Karp, A. (2006). An analysis of solving groups of problems (toward the study of problem solving instruction). In J. Novotna, N.Moraova, M. Kratka, & N. Stehlikova (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Prague: Charles University, (Vol. 3), 401-408. 

 

A few TC dissertations

  • McCarron, Craig S. (2011). Comparing the Effects of Metacognitive Prompts and Contrasting Cases on Transfer in Solving Algebra Problems.
  • Rubel, Laurie H.(2002). Probabilistic misconceptions: Middle and high school students' mechanisms for judgments under uncertainty.

 

Members of the TSG

Alexander Karp

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