Helen Taylor Martin

Associate Professor & SME Graduate Advisor
Curriculum & Instruction
Science & Mathematics Education

Office: SZB 462G

Phone: (512) 232-9686
Fax: (512) 471-8460
E-Mail: taylormartin@mail.utexas.edu

Homepage: http://www.edb.utexas.edu/faculty/tmartin/index.html

Mailing Address

The University of Texas at Austin
Curriculum & Instruction
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712-0379
UTMailCode: D5700

Profile

Taylor Martin received a B. A. in Linguistics and an initial teaching certification from Dartmouth College in 1992, an M.S. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University in 2000, and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University in 2003. She joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. Her primary research interest is how people learn content in complex domains from active participation, both physical and social. She is cooperating with local elementary schools to improve assessment tools for young children's mathematics and to examine how hands-on activities impact mathematics learning and investigating the development of adaptive expertise through cooperation with the VaNTH Engineering Research Center in Bioengineering Educational Technologies.

Current Courses

Role of active learning strategies (e.g., hands-on activities and invention) in development of mathematics concepts, Dynamic development of concrete & symbolic understanding of mathematics concepts, Design & implementation of curricula and technologies that promote good math learning, Examining effectiveness of curricula and technologies in classrooms using experimental & observational methods

Research Interests and Expertise

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