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Mathematics education, Misconceptions, error patterns and metacognition, Middle Years of Schooling Mathematics Curriculum reform, Teacher professional learning, Critical numeracy, Proportional reasoning, mental computation, rational number understanding Dr Shelley Dole is a senior lecturer in mathematics education at The University of Queensland. She teaches in the Bachelor of Education (Middle Years of Schooling) program. Shelley is an experienced classroom teacher having taught in primary and secondary schools in Victoria, Northern Territory, and Queensland. She has been a tertiary educator and mathematics education researcher for over 10 years and has worked in tertiary institutions in Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria.
Shelley’s research interests include students’ mathematical learning difficulties, misconceptions and conceptual change; assessment in mathematics; middle years mathematics curriculum; mental computation; and developing proportional reasoning and multiplicative thinking within the study of rational number. She has been involved in several major research projects in a range of fields relevant to mathematics education, including mental computation; students’ invented algorithms, early years literacy and numeracy and distance education; middle years literacy and numeracy for ‘at-risk’ students. Her research interests focus particularly on promoting students’ conceptual understanding of mathematics to encourage success and enjoyment of mathematical investigations in school.
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