Meet the team
Our research focuses on uncovering the unknowns about math groupwork using complex instructions and collaborative learning strategies. The team intends to provide math groupwork resources based on empirical studies and peer-reviewed academic studies. We develop these resources by working with a math teacher partner for middle school students in their classrooms. By closely analyzing students’ math work and their interactions, we have gained valuable insights into the impact of math groupwork on student.
Dr. Anna DeJarnette
Primary Investigator.
Math Education Researcher and the grant receiver of this project.
Palak Shah
Research Assistant (2021-2024).
Created multiple participant interview protocols. Collected, analyzed and triangulated the student data. Creative script writer for the video resources.
Michelle RENAE Johnson
Research Assistant (2021-2023).
Aided the data collection, data transcription, and analysis. Also, fostered the script writing and voice artists’ processes for the video resources.
Isayiah Wolf
Dr. Weiqi Zhao
Research Assistant (2023-2024).
Gathered literature from other existing empirical research, analyzed students’ work, and organized students’ worksheets and tasks.
Nick Shaver
Researcher.
Develop some of the themes that emerged from student discourses during their group work and collected data for the fractions reasoning lesson.
Equitable Math Groupwork 