coe-staff: Colloquium: Dr. Asha Jitendra, Teaching Mathematics Problem Solving Using Schema-Based Instruction

[Lisa Fortin]

You are invited to attend a COE Faculty Colloquium presented by 2016 alumni award recipient Dr. Asha Jitendra on Friday, October 28.  Her presentation will be from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm with a Q and A session from 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm.  The colloquium will take place in HEDCO 230T.

Title:  Teaching Mathematics Problem Solving Using Schema-Based Instruction: 20 Years of Research

Asha K. Jitendra, Ph. D., Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning
Department of Educational Psychology
University of Minnesota

Biographical Information

Asha K. Jitendra, Ph.D., is the Rodney Wallace Professor for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Minnesota. She also serves as a research affiliate at the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement. Jitendra was a professor for 14 years in the College of Education at Lehigh University and faculty to the Center for Promoting Research to Practice. She earned her PhD in Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Oregon in 1991. Jitendra is the recipient of the 2016 Special Education Research Special Interest Group's Distinguished Researcher Award, American Educational Research Association, University of Oregon College of Education Distinguished Alumni Award for 2016, and 2012 College of Education and Human Development Excellence in Research Award, University of Minnesota. She is a Research Fellow of the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities.

Jitendra's research focuses on instructional interventions, textbook content analysis, and assessment practices. She has developed mathematics instructional programs and tested their effectiveness with elementary and middle school students, including those at risk for academic failure. Drawing on work from research projects focused on enhancing students' mathematical problem solving performance, Jitendra developed mathematics program materials that include Solving math word problems: Teaching students with learning disabilities using schema-based instruction and Solving ratio, proportion, and percent problems using schema-based instruction. She served as a member of the panel for the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) practice guide, Improving Mathematical Problem Solving in Grades 4 through 8. Jitendra has managed several federal research grants and is currently the principal investigator on a U.S. Department of Education (IES) project that studies middle school students' learning of ratio and proportion. Jitendra's scholarly contributions include more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in top tiered journals in special education, educational psychology, and school psychology as well as books, book chapters, and other papers. Jitendra has presented on effective instructional strategies for enhancing the academic performance of children and adolescents with learning problems in the US, Canada, Australia, Spain, Slovania, and Taiwan.



Lisa Fortin
Director of Events and Student Recruitment
College of Education, University of Oregon
Ph:  541-346-1607

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