Ms. Elizabeth Oldham
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Pure & Applied Mathematics
Biography
Elizabeth Oldham's main work is in the field of mathematics education. She has a long association with cross-national studies of curriculum and attainment: she was a member of the international Curriculum Analysis Group for the Second International Mathematics Study in the 1980s; she worked with the Educational Research Centre in Dublin with regard to curriculum aspects of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study in the 1990s; and was a member of the National Advisory Committee for the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and is a member of the National TIMSS [Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study] Post-Primary Advisory Group. She served as an Education Officer (Mathematics) for the Irish National Council for Curriculum and Assessment while the school mathematics courses were being revised in the 1990s. Her current work is chiefly on aspects of teaching and learning mathematics, particularly with regard to teachers' and prospective teachers' philosophies of mathematics and mathematical identities, but also on prospective teachers' understanding of concepts.
Her other main field of interest is in the field of computer science and the use of ICTs in education. She served on the ICT Steering Committee of the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, and now works especially with colleagues in the Trinity College Centre for Research in IT in Education. With the revival of interest in computer programming in schools, she is also engaged in research in this area.
She is a former President of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland (2000-2002) and for many years was co-chair of a Research and Development Community ("Science and Mathematics Education") of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe. She is currently Treasurer of the Dublin Branch of the Irish Mathematics Teachers' Association and has chaired the Dublin Branch of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland; she serves on the national executives of both bodies.
A former teacher at Alexandra College, Dublin, she served on the school's Council (governing body) for over thirty years.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Roisin Faherty, Karen Nolan, Keith Quille, Brett Becker, and Elizabeth Oldham, A brief history of K-12 Computer Science education in Ireland, International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 6, (1), 2023, p3 - 34
Stephen Curran and Elizabeth Oldham, Investigation of the Degree to which the Study of the Old Applied Mathematics Course Affected Students" Performance in Other Leaving Certificate Subjects, Ninth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI 9), Dublin City University, 2023, edited by Aisling Twohill and Stephen Quirke , 2023, pp116 - 123
Ciarán Duffy and Elizabeth Oldham, Problems for Teachers? Views of Members of the Irish Mathematics Teachers' Association on Current Issues in Mathematics Education, Ninth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI 9), Dublin City University, 2023, edited by Aisling Twohill and Stephen Quirke , DCU Institute of Education, Dublin City University, 2023, pp132 - 139
Elizabeth Oldham & Aibhín Bray, Innovative experiential practice(s) in teacher education: A case study in an Irish university, The Mathematics Education for the Future Project Symposium: Innovative teaching practices, Oxford, England, August 14-18 2023, edited by Janina Morska & Alan Rogerson , WTM-Verlag, 2023, pp174 - 180
Aibhín Bray & Elizabeth Oldham, An exploration of the use of structured reflection tasks to surface prospective teachers' awareness of TPACK, Twelfth Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (CERME12), Bolzano, Italy [online], 2-5 February 2022, edited by Hodgen, J., Geraniou, E., Bolondi,G. & Ferretti, F. , Free University of Bozen-Bolzano and ERME, 2022, pp2514 - 2516
Cornelia Connolly, Jake Byrne and Elizabeth Oldham, The trajectory of Computer Science education policy in Ireland: A document analysis narrative, European Journal of Education, 57, (3), 2022, p512 - 529
Elizabeth Oldham, Computing in the Irish school curriculum: What can we learn from a fifty-year adventure?, ITiCSE 22: Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Dublin, Ireland, 8-13 July 2022, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, pp1 - 1
Elizabeth Oldham & Aibhín Bray, Undergraduate mathematics students' reflections on school mathematics curricula after a major curriculum change in Ireland, Building on the Past to Prepare for the Future, 16th International Conference of The Mathematics Education for the Future Project, Cambridge, England, 8-13 August 2022, edited by Janina Morska & Alan Rogerson , WTM Verlag für wissenschaftliche Texte und Medien, Münster, 2022, pp378 - 383
Reforming Junior Cycle: Lessons from Project Maths in, editor(s)Damian Murchan and Keith Johnston , Curriculum Change within Policy and Practice: Reforming Second-Level Education in Ireland, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp125 - 142, [Chris Byrne, Mark Prendergast and Elizabeth Oldham]
Bray, A., Byrne, J. R., Tangney, B., & Oldham, E. , The Bridge21 framework: Impact on teachers and implications for equitable, inclusive classrooms, ATEE Spring Conference 2020-2021, Florence, Italy [online], 28-29 October 2021, edited by Maria Ranieri, Laura Menichetti, Stefano Cuomo, Davide Parmigiani, and Marta Pellegrini , Firenze University Press, 2021, pp151 - 153
Emma Berry, Aibhín Bray, and Elizabeth Oldham, Reflection on Project Maths after Ten Years: To What Extent Have Teaching Methods Changed?, Eighth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland : MEI8, Dublin City University [online}, 15-16 October 2021, edited by Mary Kingston and Paul Grimes , DCU Institute of Education, 2021, pp133 - 140
Developing Confident Computational Thinking through Teacher Twinning Online in, editor(s)Information Resources Management Association , Research Anthology on Computational Thinking, Programming, and Robotics in the Classroom, Hershey, Pennsylvania, IGI Global, 2021, pp427 - 441, [Elizabeth Oldham, Pamela Cowan, Richard Millwood, Glenn Strong, Nina Bresnihan, Mags Amond, and Lisa Hegarty]
Elizabeth Oldham, Aibhín Bray, Melanie Ní Dhuinn, & Jennifer Liston, An analysis of undergraduate mathematicians' reactions and reflections about issues in mathematics education, ATEE Annual Conference 2020/2021: Re-imagining and remaking teacher education, Warsaw [online], 9-11 September 2021, 2021
Laurinda Leite, Elizabeth Oldham, Ana S. Afonso, Floriano Viseu, Luís Dourado and Maria Helena Martinho, Science and Mathematics Education for 21st Century Citizens: Challenges and Ways Forward, Hauppage, NY, Nova Science Publishers, 2020, i-xxvii, 1-407pp
Elizabeth Oldham, The new normal in Ireland: COVID-19 + use of technology = a change in the culture of education?, AUCEi Annual Meeting, Florida, USA, 30-31 July 2020, 2020
Elizabeth Oldham, Maria Helena Martinho, Floriano Viseu, Rook Doggen, Elsa Price and Laurinda Leite, Investigating prospective science and mathematics teachers' meanings for and representations of functions: An international study, ATEE Annual Conference 2019: Teacher education in a changing global context, Bath Spa, England, 14-16 August 2019, edited by Leah Shagrir & Davide Parmigiani , ATEE, 2020, pp80 - 102
Introduction - Teaching and Learning Science and Mathematics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Aspirations in, editor(s)Laurinda Leite, Elizabeth Oldham, Ana S. Afonso, Floriano Viseu, Luís Dourado and Maria Helena Martinho , Science and Mathematics Education for 21st Century Citizens: Challenges and Ways Forward, Hauppage, NY, Nova Science Publishers, 2020, ppxv - xxvii, [Elizabeth Oldham and Elsa Price]
Elizabeth Oldham and Mark Prendergast, Investigating prospective mathematics teachers' meanings for and representations of functions: A study of pre-service teachers and of students of mathematics in an Irish university , ATEE Annual Conference 2019: Teacher education in a changing global context, Bath Spa, England, 14-16 August 2019, edited by Leah Shagrir & Davide Parmigiani , ATEE, 2020, pp38 - 61
Elizabeth Oldham, The role of voluntary teacher groups in providing leadership in education: A case study of the work of the Computers in Education Society of Ireland, 1st S3i International Innovation Conference IBCMED: innovative practices on Management, Education, Technology and Health, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 7-11 December 2020, 2020
Elizabeth Oldham, Donal O'Donovan and Megan Colhoun, Classroom experience as a factor in encouraging undergraduate mathematics students to consider a career in teaching: A case study, 2019 ATEE Winter Conference: Science and mathematics education in the 21st Century, Braga, Portugal, 15-17 April 2019, edited by Laurinda Leite, Elizabeth Oldham, Luisa Carvalho, Ana S. Afonso, Floriano Viseu, Luis Dourado and Maria Helena Martinho , ATEE and CIEd, Institute of Education, University of Minho, 2019, pp9 - 21
Pre-Service Teachers' Technological Self-Efficacy : An Irish Perspective. in, editor(s)D. Gibson & M. Ochoa , Research Highlights in Technology and Teacher Education 2019 , Chesapeake, VA, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2019, pp149 - 158, [Egan, A., Fitzgibbon, A., Johnston, K., & Oldham, E. ]
Patricia Eaton, Christine Horn, Elizabeth Oldham and Maurice OReilly., Reflections on the development and application of an instrument to access mathematical identity, Eleventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education, Utrecht, Netherlands, 6-10 February 2019, edited by Jankvist, U. T., Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, M., & Veldhuis, M. , Freudenthal Group & Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University and ERME, 2019, pp8
Elizabeth Oldham, Megan Colhoun and Donal O'Donovan, The influence of an undergraduate module including classroom experience on perceptions of teaching and intention to take up teaching as a career: A study of prospective teachers of mathematics, 2018 ATEE Annual Conference Proceedings: A future for all: teaching for a sustainable society, Gavle, Sweden, 20-22 August 2018, Association for Teacher Education in Europe, 2019, pp18 - 32
Elizabeth Oldham, "Modern Maths" and "Project Maths": Polar opposites or mirror images?, Seventh Conference on Research in Mathematics Education in Ireland (MEI7), Dublin, Ireland, 11-12th October 2019, edited by L. Harbison & A. Twohill , Institute of Education, Dublin City University, 2019, pp211 - 218
Laurinda Leite, Elizabeth Oldham, Luisa Carvalho, Ana S. Afonso, Floriano Viseu, Luis Dourado and Maria Helena Martinho(ed.), 2019 ATEE Winter Conference: Science and mathematics education in the 21st Century, 2019 ATEE Winter Conference: Science and mathematics education in the 21st Century, Braga, Portugal, 15-17 April 2019, ATEE and CIEd, Institute of Education, University of Minho, 2019, iv + 164 p
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Johnston, K. & Oldham. E., Factors Influencing Pre-Service Teachers' Use of Technology on School Placement - Mind the Gap, Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018, Washington, March 26-30 2018, edited by E. Langran & J. Borup , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2018, pp1377-1382
Eddie Costello, Patsy Stafford and Elizabeth Oldham, Facilitating the development of prospective primary school teachers' understanding of the concept of ratio through discussion, 2017 ATEE Annual Conference: Conference Proceedings - Changing Perspectives and Approaches in Contemporary Teaching, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 23-25 October 2017, edited by Marija Sablić, Alma kugor, Ivana Đurđević Babić , Association for Teacher Education in Europe, 2018, pp247 - 264
Richard Millwood and Elizabeth Oldham, Preparing for Computing in Irish Schools by Developing a Community of Practice, 23rd Conference on Education, Technology and Society, Taquara, Brazil , 6-16 November 2018, 2018
Richard Millwood, Elizabeth Oldham and Mags Amond, Developing a Community of Practice to support computing in Irish schools, ATEE Winter Conference, Utrecht, 15-16 February 2018, 2018
Oldham, Elizabeth; Cowan, Pamela; Millwood, Richard; Strong, Glenn; Bresnihan, Nina; Amond, Mags; Hegarty, Lisa, Developing Confident Computational Thinking through Teacher Twinning Online, International Journal of Smart Education and Urban Society (IJSEUS) , 9, (1), 2018, p61 - 75
Aibhín Bray, Elizabeth Oldham and Ciarán Bauer, Mathematics & Science Teaching in the Contemporary Classroom: Current Perspectives and Suggestions for Professional Development, 2017 ATEE Annual Conference: Conference Proceedings - Changing Perspectives and Approaches in Contemporary Teaching, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 23-25 October 2017, edited by Marija Sablić, Alma kugor, Ivana Đurđević Babić , 2018, pp1 - 18
Lawlor, J., Conneely, C., Oldham, E., Marshall, K., & Tangney B., Bridge21: Teamwork, Technology and Learning. A pragmatic model for effective 21C Team-based Learning, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 27, (2), 2018, p211 - 232
R. Millwood, A. Webb, J. Hegarty, M. Amond & E. Oldham, Computing in Irish schools: Developing a Community of Practice for teachers across all levels of the Irish school system, ATEE Annual Conference 2018: 'A future for all: teaching for a sustainable society', Gavle, Sweden, 20-22 August 2018, 2018
Murchan, D., & Oldham, E., Exploring the role of computer-based assessments in diagnosing students' mathematical errors in primary education in Ireland, Irish Educational Studies, 36, (4), 2017, p489 - 510
Mathematics education in Ireland in, editor(s)Gabriele Kaiser , Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education, New York, NY, Springer International , 2017, pp347 - 352, [Maurice OReilly, Therese Dooley, Elizabeth Oldham and Gerry Shiel]
Elizabeth Oldham, Pamela Cowan, Richard Millwood, Glenn Strong, Nina Bresnihan, Mags Amond, and Lisa Hegarty, Developing confident computational thinking through teacher twinning online, 2017 ATEE Spring Conference - Innovation, Technologies and Research in Education, Riga, Latvia, 12-13th May 2017, 2017
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Johnston, K. & Oldham. E., , Use of Technology by Pre-Service Teachers on School Placement - An Irish Perspective, International Technology, Education and Development Conference (INTED), Valencia, 6-8th March, edited by L. Gomez Chova, A. Lopez Martinez, I. Candel Torres , 2017, pp1345 - 1354
Elizabeth Oldham, Pamela Cowan, Richard Millwood, Glenn Strong, Nina Bresnihan, Mags Amond, and Lisa Hegarty, CTwins: Does Computational Thinking win when Coding Twins are born?, Educational Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Cork, Ireland, 20-22 April 2017, 2017
Richard Millwood and Elizabeth Oldham, Computer Science in Schools in England and Ireland - context and current developments in 2017, Redin - Revista Educacional Interdisciplinar, 6, (1), 2017, p1-14
Richard Millwood, Elizabeth Oldham, Pamela Cowan, Glenn Strong, Nina Bresnihan, Mags Amond, and Lisa Hegarty, Art and Programming in Pairs to Develop Computational Thinking, 2017 ATEE Annual Conference - Changing Perspectives and Approaches in Contemporary Teaching, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 23-25 October 2017, 2017
Murchan D., Lombard, P., Oldham, E., & Johnston, K., Supplementary online tutoring as a response to high-stakes testing in mathematics, Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, Texas, 27 April-1 May 2017, 2017
Aibhín Bray, Elizabeth Oldham and Katriona O'Sullivan, A Study of Readiness for the Integration of 21st Century Practices in the Mathematics Classrooms, 10th Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education (CERME10), Dublin, 1-5 February 2017, edited by Therese Dooley & Ghislaine Gueudet , DCU Institute of Education and ERME, 2017, pp3217 - 3218
Lorraine Fisher, Elizabeth Oldham, Richard Millwood, Ann FitzGibbon and Pamela Cowan, Recognising and addressing inertia affecting teacher education: a case study considering Computer Science in the Republic of Ireland, Journal of the World Federation of Associations of Teacher Education, 1, (3a), 2016, p81 - 102
Elizabeth Oldham, Patsy Stafford and Valerie O'Dowd, Investigating Irish prospective primary teachers' awareness of applications of the ratio concept: implications for teacher education, 2015 ATEE Annual Conference: Teacher Education through Partnerships and Collaborative Learning Communities, Glasgow, 24-26 August 2015, edited by Kay Livingston and Gaele MacFarlane , ATEE (Association for Teacher Education in Europe), 2016, pp131 - 144
Pamela Cowan, Elizabeth Oldham and Ann FitzGibbon, Investigating Secondary Teachers' Perceptions of Learning Computational Thinking through Games Design: A case study in Ireland, 41st Annual ATEE conference, Eindhoven, 22-24 August 2016, 2016
Pamela Cowan, Elizabeth Oldham and Ann FitzGibbon, Think, code, succeed: The Programming Studio as a games-based collaboration, 2015 ATEE Annual Conference: Teacher Education through Partnerships and Collaborative Learning Communities, Glasgow, 24-26 August 2015, edited by Kay Livingston and Gaele MacFarlane , ATEE (Association for Teacher Education in Europe), 2016, pp97 - 113
Elizabeth Oldham, Balancing Content Knowledge and Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Educating the Best Mathematics Teachers: An Irish Case Study, Educating the best teachers: a challenge for teacher education - Proceedings of the 41st Annual ATEE conference, Eindhoven, 22-24 August 2016, edited by Quinta Kools, Bob Koster, Anouke Bakx, Paul Hennissen and Leids Congres Bureau , ATEE (Association for Teacher Education in Europe), 2016, pp79 - 86
Patricia Eaton, Christine Horn, Miriam Liston, Elizabeth Oldham and Maurice OReilly, Using Narrative to Access Mathematical Identity: An overview, British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics Day Conference, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 28th February 2015, 2015
Patricia Eaton, Christine Horn, Miriam Liston, Elizabeth Oldham and Maurice OReilly, Interconnected Contexts for (student) Teacher Education: An insight from a Study of Mathematical Identity, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 40th Annual Conference, Glasgow, 24-26 August 2015, 2015
Aibhín Bray, Elizabeth Oldham and Brendan Tangney, Technology-Mediated Realistic Mathematics Education and the Bridge21 Model: A teaching experiment, Proceedings of the 9th Congress of European Research in Mathematics Education, Prague, Czech Republic, 4-8 February 2015, edited by Konrad Krainer and Naďa Vondrová , Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Education and ERME, 2015, pp2487 - 2494
Pamela Cowan, Elizabeth Oldham and Ann FitzGibbon, The Programming Studio: Investigating teachers' readiness for teaching programming in the island of Ireland, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 39th Annual Conference, Braga, Portugal, 25-27 August 2014, edited by L. Leite, M.A. Flores, L. Dourado, M. T. Vilaca and S. Morgado , ATEE, 2015, pp299 - 309
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Johnston, K. & Oldham. E., Professional Use of Technology on School Placement - an Irish study., Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 , Las Vegas, March 2-6 2015, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2015, pp2040 - 2047
Nina Bresnihan, Richard Millwood, Elizabeth Oldham, Glenn Strong and Diana Wilson, A critique of the current trend to implement computing in schools, Pedagogika, 65, (3), 2015, p292 - 300
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A. & Oldham, E., Using ePortfolios in a College of Education - an interim report., Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015, Las Vegas, March 2-6 2015, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 2015, pp1617 - 1623
Realistic Mathematics Education, Mobile Technology & The Bridge21 Model For 21st Century Learning - A Perfect Storm in, editor(s)H. Crompton & J. Traxler , Mobile Learning and Mathematics: Foundations, Design, and Case Studies, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, Routledge, 2015, pp96 - 105, [B. Tangney, A. Bray & E. Oldham]
Patricia Eaton, Christine Horn, Miriam Liston, Elizabeth Oldham and Maurice OReilly, From learner to teacher: using reflection to develop mathematical teacher identity, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 39th Annual Conference, Braga, Portugal, 25-27 August 2014, edited by L. Leite, M.A. Flores, L. Dourado, M. T. Vilaca and S. Morgado , ATEE, 2015, pp367 - 375
Elizabeth Oldham, Patsy Stafford and Valerie O'Dowd, Investigating Representations of Ratio among Prospective Primary Teachers in Ireland: Implications for Teacher Education, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 39th Annual Conference, Braga, Portugal, 25-27 August 2014, edited by L. Leite, M.A. Flores, L. Dourado, M. T. Vilaca and S. Morgado , ATEE, 2015, pp329 - 339
Setting the Context: Developments in the Republic of Ireland prior to Schools IT 2000 in, editor(s)Deirdre Butler, Kevin Marshall and Margaret Leahy , Shaping the Future: How Technology Can Lead to Educational Transformation, Dublin, The Liffey Press, 2015, pp19 - 45, [Elizabeth Oldham]
Elizabeth Oldham and Aoibhinn Ni Shuilleabhain, Investigating Representations of Ratio among Prospective Mathematics Teachers: a Study of Student-Teachers and Students of Mathematics in an Irish University, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 38th Annual Conference, Østfold, Norway, 22-25 August 2013, edited by Eystein Arntzen , ATEE aisbl, 2014, pp298 - 321
Alison Egan, Ann FitzGibbon and Elizabeth Oldham, Technology Acceptance and ePortfolios: An Intervention in a College of Education, International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain, 10-12 March 2014, edited by L.Gomez Chova, A. Lopez Martinez, and I. Candel Torres , IATED Academy, 2014, 6328 - 6336
Patricia Eaton, Christine Horn, Miriam Liston, Elizabeth Oldham and Maurice OReilly, Developing an Instrument to explore Mathematical Identity: A Study of Students from several Third Level Institutions in Ireland, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 38th Annual Conference, Østfold, 22-25 August 2013, edited by Eystein Arntzen , ATEE, 2014, pp280 - 296
Alison Egan, Ann FitzGibbon, Elizabeth Oldham and Keith Johnston, So You're a Technology Expert - What can you do?, International Technology, Education and Development Conference, Valencia, Spain, 10-12 March 2014, edited by L.Gomez Chova, A. Lopez Martinez, and I. Candel Torres , IATED Academy, 2014, pp6167 - 6176
Elizabeth Oldham, Are we there yet? An examination of issues raised by the ICMI study 'School Mathematics in the 1990s' and other publications from the 1980s, Fifth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education MEI5, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, 5-6 September 2013, edited by Therese Dooley, Siun NicMhuiri, Maurice OReilly and Ronan Ward , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 2013, pp260 - 271
Murchan, D., Oldham, E. & O'Sullivan, C. , Applying CBA technology to traditional error analysis in elementary mathematics. Lessons from Maths Assist. , Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 2013, 2013
Aibhin Bray, Elizabeth Oldham, Brendan Tangney, THE HUMAN CATAPULT AND OTHER STORIES - ADVENTURES WITH TECHNOLOGY IN MATHEMATICS EDUCATION, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching ICTMT 11, 11th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching (ICTMT11), Bari, Italy, July, 2013, edited by Eleonora Faggiano, Antonella Montone , University of Bari, 2013, pp77 - 84
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Oldham, E., Girvan, C. & Hallissy, M. , A Vision for Education in 2026 - the Views of a Cohort of Pre-Service and In-Service Teachers, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 25-29 2013, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2013, pp1275 - 1282
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A. & Oldham, E., Teacher Identified Uses of Technology in the Classroom - an Irish cohort, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, New Orleans, LA, March 25-29 2013, Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2013, pp5034 - 5039
Bray, A., Oldham, E. and Tangney, B., The Human Catapult and Other Stories - Adventures with Technology in Mathematics Education, 11th International Conference on Technology in Maths Teaching (ICTMT11), Bari, Italy, 9-12 July 2013, edited by Eleonora Faggiano and Antonella Montone , 2013, pp77 - 83
Elizabeth Oldham, Getting ratio in proportion? An examination of the emphasis on ratio-related concepts in Irish mathematics curricula, Fifth Conference on Research in Mathematics Education MEI5, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9, 5-6 September 2013, edited by Therese Dooley, Siun NicMhuiri, Maurice OReilly and Ronan Ward , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 2013, pp272 - 283
Sarah Berenson, Elizabeth Oldham, Elsa Price and Laurinda Leite, Investigating Representations of Ratio among Prospective Mathematics and Science Teachers: An International Study, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 37th Annual Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey, 25-29 August 2012, edited by Esmahan Agaoglu, Cetin Terzi, Ceyhun Kavrayici, Damla Aydug and Beyza Himmetoglu , ATEE aisbl, 2013, pp78 - 92
Egan, A., FitzGibbon, A., Girvan, C. & Oldham, E. , Self-Reported Competency and Technology Acceptance: Investigating the Relationship for a Cohort of Irish Pre-Service Teachers, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012, Austin, TX, 5-9 March 2012, edited by P. Resta , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012, pp3210 - 3217
The teaching and learning of mathematics in Ugandan secondary schools: poised for change? in, editor(s)Rosarii Griffin , Teacher education in Sub-Saharan Africa: closer perspectives, Oxford, Symposium Books, 2012, pp147 - 164, [Paul Conway, Elizabeth Oldham, James Urwick, Sarah Kisa, Justine Otaala and Ann Mugwera]
Ann Devitt, Marita Kerin, Helen O'Sullivan and Elizabeth Oldham, Thresholds Concepts and Practices for Teacher Education: a different lens or just a new pair of drapes, ESAI 2012 (37th Annual Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference), University College Cork, 29-31 March 2012, 2012
Sean Close, Elizabeth Oldham, Gerry Shiel, Therese Dooley & Michael O'Leary, Effects of Calculators on Mathematics Achievement and Attitudes of Ninth-Grade Students, The Journal of Educational Research, 105, (6), 2012, p377 - 390
Ann Devitt, Elizabeth Oldham and Marita Kerin, Beginning a career of learning about learning: a case study of student teachers in an initial teacher education programme in Ireland, Teachers' Life-cycle from Initial Teacher education to Experienced Professional: 2011 ATEE Annual Conference, Riga, 26-30 August 2011, edited by Irēna Zogla and Lūcija Rutka , Association for Teacher Education in Europe, 2012, pp283 - 296
FitzGibbon, A., Egan, A., Oldham, E. & Girvan, C. , What Should We Investigate Next? A Scoping Exercise to Identify Variables of Relevance in Teachers' Views on Technology-Related Issues, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2012 , Austin, TX, 5-9 March 2012, edited by P. Resta , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2012, pp3218 - 3223
Patricia Eaton, Elizabeth Oldham and Maurice OReilly, Nature and nurture: an analysis of mathematical identity of distinct cohorts of prospective teachers, Teachers' Life-cycle from Initial Teacher Education to Experienced Professional: 2011 ATEE Annual Conference, Riga, 26-30 August 2011, edited by Irēna ogla and Lūcija Rutka , Association for Teacher Education in Europe, 2012, pp29 - 43
League tables: measures of quality or distractions from meaningful critique? in, editor(s)Imelda Elliott, Michael Murphy, Alain Payeur, Raymond Duval , Mutations de l'enseignement supérieur et internationalisation / Change in higher education and globalisation, Brussels, De Boeck, 2011, pp45 - 58, [Elizabeth Oldham]
Elizabeth Oldham, Balancing Support, Challenge and Responsibility in Professional Development: the Views and Experiences of Participants in a Mathematics Curriculum Innovation Project in the Republic of Ireland, Responsibility, Challenge and Support in Teachers' Life-long Development: ATEE 2010 Annual Conference, Budapest, 26-30 August 2010, edited by Gyorgy Meszaros & Ivan Falus , Association for Teacher Education in Europe, 2011, pp233 - 247
Patricia Eaton, Elizabeth Oldham and Maurice OReilly, Looking back to look forward: The mathematical identity of prospective mathematics teachers, 4th National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education: MEI4, St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin, 22-23 September 2011, edited by T. Dooley, D. Corcoran and M. Ryan , 2011, pp155 - 167
Murchan, D. & Oldham, E., Exploring diagnostic error analysis methodologies in the context of e-assessment in primary-level mathematics, Annual meeting of the Association for Educational Assessment - Europe, Belfast, 10-12 November 2011, 2011
Ann FitzGibbon, Carina Girvan and Elizabeth Oldham , Sustainable use of technology for effective learning in Ireland, EDEN Annual Conference: Learning and sustainability - the new ecosystem of information and knowledge, Dublin, 19-22 June 2011, 2011, pp9
Ann FitzGibbon, Carina Girvan, Elizabeth Oldham & Hilary McLouglin, Digital divides: Experiences and beliefs of Education students in Ireland, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, San Diego, March 2010, edited by D. Gibson & B. Dodge , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2010, pp2460 - 2465
B. Tangney, E. Oldham, C. Conneely, E. Barrett, & J. Lawlor, Pedagogy and processes for a computer engineering outreach workshop - the B2C model, IEEE Transactions on Education, 53, (1), 2010, p53 - 60
B. Tangney, S. Knox, G. Sharpe, E. Oldham, S. Weber, S. Soloway, & K. Jennings, Towards the use of Smartphones for the contextualized teaching of mathematics, Education in the wild: contextual and location-based mobile learning in action. STELLAR Alpine Rendez-Vous Workshop, Germany, 2010, edited by E. Brown , University of Nottingham Learning Sciences Research institute, 2010, pp13 - 17
The status of mathematical knowledge and its implications for mathematics education in, editor(s)Aidan Seery , Essays in tribute to J. Valentine Rice, 1935-2006, Dublin, Lilliput Press, 2010, pp159 - 181, [Elizabeth Oldham]
Elizabeth Oldham & Sean Close, Solving problems in mathematics education: challenges for Project Maths, Third National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI3), Drumcondra, Dublin, 24-25 September 2009, edited by Dolores Corcoran, Therese Dooley, Sean Close & Ronan Ward , St. Patrick's College Drumcondra, 2009, pp295 - 308
Elizabeth Oldham, Ann FitzGibbon, Carina Girvan, Graham Heap, Micheal Collins and Tim Savage, You can lead students to Second Life, but can you get them to immerse?, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Charleston, South Carolina, March 2009, edited by Ian Gibson, Roberta Weber, Karen McFerrin, Roger Carlsen and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2009, pp2318 - 2323
Changing the culture of learning in mathematics and science: facing the challenge in Ireland in, editor(s)Issa M. Saleh and Myint Swe Khine , Fostering scientific habits of mind: pedagogical content and best practices in science education, Rotterdam, Sense Publishers, 2009, pp295 - 317, [Elizabeth Oldham]
Ann FitzGibbon, Elizabeth Oldham and Keith Johnston, Are Irish Student-Teachers Prepared to be Agents of Change in using IT in Education?, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Las Vegas,, March 2008, edited by Roger Carlsen, Karen McFerrin, Roberta Weber and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2008, pp1397 - 1404
Ann FitzGibbon, Elizabeth Oldham and Keith Johnston, An investigation of student-teachers' use of social networks and their perceptions of using technology for teaching and learning, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, San Antonio, March 2007, edited by Roger Carlsen, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2007, pp788 - 795
Richard Butler and Elizabeth Oldham, Digital manipulatives as Froebel's Gifts in the 21st century? Pre-service teachers report on their experience of using Lego Mindstorms with children in Irish schools, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, San Antonio, March 2007, edited by Roger Carlsen, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2007, pp1417 - 1424
Elizabeth Oldham and Richard Butler, Brief encounters, hard fun: pre-service teachers' reflections on short modules on Logo and Lego Mindstorms in Ireland, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2006, edited by Caroline Crawford, Roger Carlsen, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2006, pp3802 - 3808
Elizabeth Oldham and Sean Close, Solving problems in Irish mathematics education: an examination of two problem-based mathematics courses for pre-service teachers, Association for Teacher Education in Europe 30th Annual Conference, Amsterdam, October 2005, edited by Jos Beelen, Marco Snoek, Anja Swennan, Jannis de Valk, Sjoerd Visser and Yvonne Wulder , Amsterdam Faculty of Education, 2006, pp383 - 387
Elizabeth Oldham, The PISA mathematics results in context, Irish Journal of Education, 37, 2006, p27 - 52
Keith Johnston, Ann FitzGibbon, Elizabeth Oldham and Aidan Seery, Have Irish Pre-Service Teachers Crossed the Digital Divide?, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2006, edited by Caroline Crawford, Roger Carlsen, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2006, pp1651 - 1658
Elizabeth E. Oldham, Ann FitzGibbon and Keith Johnston, Ubiquitous devices - a preparation for student-teachers' use of technology for teaching and learning?, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, March 2005, edited by Caroline Crawford, Roger Carlsen, Ian Gibson, Karen McFerrin, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2005, pp1524 - 1531
Judith Cosgrove, Gerry Shiel, Elizabeth Oldham and Nick Sofroniou, A survey of mathematics teachers in Ireland, Irish Journal of Education, 35, 2004, p20 - 44
Joe English and Elizabeth Oldham, Continuing professional development for mathematics teachers: Meeting needs in the Republic of Ireland, 29th Annual Conference of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, April 2004, 2004, ppi, 1-26
Ann FitzGibbon, Keith Johnston, Elizabeth Oldham and Andrew Loxley, Experiences and expectations of preservice teachers in the Republic of Ireland with regard to information and communications technologies in education, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2004, edited by Richard Ferdig, Caroline Crawford, Roger Carlsen, Niki Davis, Jerry Price, Roberta Weber and Dee Anna Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2004, pp2158 - 2165
Elizabeth Oldham, Curriculum overload: a question of values?, Search: a Church of Ireland Journal, 27, (1), 2004, p39 - 51
Elizabeth Oldham, From FIMS to PISA to our classrooms: can large-scale cross-national studies help us to teach and learn differently?, Irish Educational Studies, 22, (1), 2003, p1 - 27
E. E. Oldham, The performance of Irish students in mathematical literacy in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Irish Journal of Education, 33, 2002, p31 - 52
Elizabeth Oldham, The culture of mathematics education in Ireland: keeping the faith?, Irish Educational Studies, 20, 2001, p266 - 277
Ann FitzGibbon, Cyril Drury, Elizabeth Oldham and Brendan Tangney, A hero's journey: introducing modular in-service diploma courses in IT at Trinity College Dublin, Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International conference, San Diego, February 2000, edited by D. A. Willis, J. Willis and J. Price , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2000, pp626 - 632
Elizabeth Oldham, Ton van der Valk, Harrie Broekman and Sarah Berenson, Beginning pre-service teachers' approaches to teaching the area concept: identifying tendencies towards realistic, structuralist, mechanist or empiricist mathematics education, European Journal of Teacher Education, 22, (1), 1999, p23 - 43
E. E. Oldham, A. E. van der Valk, H. G. B. Broekman and S. B. Berenson, Preservice teachers' ideas about teaching mathematics: contributions to frameworks for teacher education courses, Twentieth Annual Meeting of the American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Raleigh, NC, Fall1998, edited by S. B. Berenson, K. R. Dawkins, M. Blanton, W. N. Coulombe, J. Kolb, K. Norwood and L. Stiff , 1998, pp710 - 716
Elizabeth Oldham, Learning to think mathematically: a reflective approach for mature student-teachers, Irish Educational Studies, 17, 1998, p194 - 207
Ann FitzGibbon and Elizabeth Oldham, Internet readiness: preservice teachers' attitudes to high technology in schools, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference, Washington, DC, March 1998, edited by Sara McNeil, Jerry D. Price, Stephanie Boger-Mehall, Bernard Robin and Jerry Willis , Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 1998, pp542 - 545
Connie Carroll Widmer, Maria Goulding and Elizabeth Oldham, Problem solving in mathematics: curriculum and assessment in Ireland, the U. S. A. and England and Wales, Studies in Education, 14, (1), 1998, p45 - 54
Elizabeth Oldham, Encountering mathematical thinking: reactions and reflections of a group of student-teachers, Partnership and cooperation: 21st Annual Conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE), Glasgow, September 1996, edited by James McCall and Ronald M. Mackay , 1997, pp88 - 102
Sarah Berenson, Ton van der Valk, Elizabeth Oldham, Ulla Runesson, Cándida Queiroz Moreira and Harrie Broekman, An international study to investigate prospective teachers' content knowledge of the area concept, European Journal of Teacher Education, 20, (2), 1997, p137 - 150
Elizabeth Oldham, Trends in mathematical education: Ireland in international perspective, Studies in Education, 12, (2), 1996, p37 - 51
Elizabeth Oldham, Mathematics education for less able students in their final years at second level school: common-sense approaches to curriculum - a case study from the Republic of Ireland, Mathematics (Education) and Common Sense - The Challenge of Social Change and Technological Development: 47th CIEAEM Meeting, Berlin, July 1995, edited by C. Keitel, U. Gellert, E. Jablonska and M. Muller , 1996, pp237 - 244
The Republic of Ireland in, editor(s)Leone Burton , Who counts: assessing mathematics in Europe, Stoke-on-Trent, Trentham Books, 1994, pp113 - 152, [Kathleen Lynch, Sean Close and Elizabeth Oldham]
Elizabeth Oldham, Mathematics education: a review of recent research, Studies in Education, 9, (2), 1993, p67 - 80
E. E. Oldham, Senior cycle mathematics curricula in the Republic of Ireland: courses for the 1990s - Gospels, Epistles and Revelations?, Irish Educational Studies, 12, 1993, p73 - 91
Elizabeth Oldham and Ann FitzGibbon, Information technology and teacher education: needs and responses, Journal of Higher Education Studies, 5, (1), 1992, p3 - 10
E. E. Oldham, Mathematics in the senior cycle - the new Leaving Certificate courses, Studies in Education, 8, 1992, p38 - 47
E. E. Oldham, Junior cycle mathematics curricula in the Republic of Ireland 1960-1990: Genesis, Exodus and Numbers, Irish Educational Studies, 11, 1992, p134 - 150
E. E. Oldham, Second level mathematics curricula: the Republic of Ireland in international perspective, Irish Educational Studies, 10, 1991, p122 - 138
Kenneth Travers and Ian Westbury with the assistance of Elizabeth E. Oldham, H. Howard Russell, Robert A. Garden, James J. Hirstein, A. I. Weinzweig, Richard G. Wolfe and Ian D. Livingstone, The IEA study of mathematics I: analysis of mathematics curricula, Oxford, Pergamon, 1989
Is there an international mathematics curriculum? in, editor(s)Brian Greer and Gerry Mulhern , New Directions in Mathematics Education, London and New York, Routledge, 1989, pp185 - 224, [Elizabeth Oldham]
Elizabeth Oldham, The New Information Technologies and Education: Implications for Teacher Education - Country Report 1: Ireland, Brussels, Association for Teacher Education in Europe, June, 1981, i-iv, 1-15
Elizabeth Oldham, Post-Primary Mathematics in Ireland: an analysis of patterns in curriculum change, Mathematics, Science and the Gifted Child: Conference Proceedings and Occasional Papers, Mathematics, Science and the Gifted Child, Trinity College Dublin, 1980, edited by Daniel J. Murphy and Valentine Rice , Department of Higher Education and Research on behalf of the School of Education, 1980, pp49 - 59
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Elizabeth Oldham, "Classroom experience" in a Mathematics Education module: Learning from the students' accounts of their different experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, AUCEi Annual Meeting, Florida, USA [online], 30th July 2021, 2021
Elizabeth Oldham, Changes in curriculum and assessment for school mathematics: Ireland in international context, Mathematics Education Research Group seminar, University College Dublin [online], 9th April 2021, 2021
Elizabeth Oldham, Changes in curriculum and assessment for school mathematics: Ireland in international context, Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium , Maynooth University, 4th November 2020, 2020, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Maynooth University
Richard Millwood and Elizabeth Oldham, Shaping tomorrow today ... starting with yesterday, Computers in Education Society of Ireland Annual Conference 2018 (CESIcon 2018), Dublin City University, Dublin, 10th March 2018, 2018, Computers in Education Society of Ireland
Richard Millwood and Elizabeth Oldham, Computer Science in Schools in England and Ireland - context and current developments in 2017, 22º Seminário de Educação, Tecnologia e Sociedade (22nd Conference on Education, Technology and Society), Facultades Integradas de Taquara, Taquara, Brazil, 10-16 October 2017, 2017
Elizabeth Oldham, Setting the scene, Symposium on the proposed new Leaving Certificate course on Computer Science, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, 16 September 2017, 2017
Patsy Stafford, Elizabeth Oldham and Valerie O'Dowd, Ratio and proportional thinking: a study in an Irish context, British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics Day Conference, Dublin, 27-28 February 2015, edited by C. Smith , 35, (1), BSRLM, 2015, pp78 - 83
Elizabeth Oldham, Fr. Ingram Memorial Lecture, 2014: Celebrating the past, embracing the present and preparing for future change, Irish Mathematics Teachers Association Newsletter, 114, 2014, p6 - 9
Elizabeth Oldham, Mathematics education: Taking stock, examining practice, developing policy?, Why Maths Matters - responding to the challenges of mathematics education in Ireland: Taking stock, examining practice, developing policy, University of Limerick, 8 March 2013, edited by Gráinne O'Donovan , Higher Education Authority, 2013, pp50 - 62
Elizabeth Oldham, Mathematics education reform in Ireland: directions and dilemmas, Trends in Mathematics Education, University College Cork, 26 November 2012, 2012
Logo as part of the B. Ed. course: Helping students to think and to learn mathematics? in, editor(s)Robbie O'Leary and John O'Mahony , ICTs in the primary school: Teaching and learning for the 21st Century, Dublin, Dublin West Education Centre, 2010, pp219 - 224, [Elizabeth Oldham]
Elizabeth Oldham, Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us About Math Achievement, Review of Lessons Learned: What International Assessments Tell Us About Math Achievement, by Tom Loveless , Teachers' College Record, April 07, 2009, 2009
Elizabeth Oldham & Ruth Forrest, Divide and conquer? Add and subtract? Approaches to strengthening the mathematical content knowledge of teacher education students for primary schools in Ireland, Teacher Education, Facing the Intercultural Dialogue: 33rd Conference of the Association for Teacher Education in Europe, Brussels, 23-27 August 2008, edited by N. Engels & A. Libotton , Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2009, pp165 - 179
Sean Close, Elizabeth Oldham, Paul Surgenor, Gerry Shiel, Therese Dooley and Michael O'Leary, The Effects of Calculator Use on Mathematics in Schools and in Certificate Examinations: Final Report on Phase 2, Dublin, St. Patrick's College, 2008, iii-xxi, 1-160
Aidan Seery and Elizabeth Oldham, Beginning teachers' views on shaping the future of Irish mathematics education: reflections on mathematics education and on their own professional development, 31st Annual ATEE Conference, Portoroz, Slovenia, October 2006, edited by Mateja Brejc , National School for Leadership in Education, Ljubljana, 2007, pp87 - 95
Paul Surgenor, Elizabeth Oldham, Sean Close, Gerry Shiel, Therese Dooley and Michael O'Leary, Pressing the Right Buttons: Calculator Use in Schools and in Junior Cycle Mathematics, Dublin, St. Patrick's College, 2007, iii - 47pp
Elizabeth Oldham, Heading in the Right Directions? Logo as part of the pre-service mathematical education of primary teachers, Second National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI 2), St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 14-15 September 2007, edited by Sean Close, Dolores Corcoran and Therese Dooley , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 2007, pp357 - 371
Rachel Perkins, Gerry Shiel, Sean Close and Elizabeth Oldham, PISA mathematics: what should teachers know?, Second National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI 2), St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 14-15 September 2007, edited by Sean Close, Dolores Corcoran and Therese Dooley , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 2007, pp184 - 201
Sean Close, Elizabeth Oldham, Paul Surgenor, Gerry Shiel, Therese Dooley and Michael O'Leary, Are calculators detrimental to students' mathematical development? The effects of introducing calculators into the Irish Junior Cycle Mathematics curriculum and Certificate examinations, Second National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI 2), St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 14-15 September 2007, edited by Sean Close, Dolores Corcoran and Therese Dooley , St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 2007, pp152 - 169
Elizabeth Oldham, A lot done, more to do? Changes in mathematics curriculum and assessment 1986-2006, Second International Science and Mathematics Conference, Drumcondra, Dublin, September 2006, edited by Dolores Corcoran and Sinead Breen , Dublin City University, 2007, pp161 - 174
Gerry Shiel, Rachel Perkins, Sean Close and Elizabeth Oldham, PISA Mathematics: a Teacher's Guide, Dublin, Stationery Office, 2007, iii - 52pp
Richard Butler and Elizabeth Oldham, When Froebel meets Papert: student teachers' experience of constructivist and constructionist learning, Froebel: from Play to Work - Taking Froebel Forward, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, June-July 2006, edited by Patricia Kennan and Richard Butler , Froebel College of Education, 2006, pp32-39 (on CD-ROM)
Elizabeth Oldham and Joe English, Reflections on practice in in-service education for mathematics teachers in the Republic of Ireland, Teacher Education between Theory and Practice: The End of Theory ... the Future of Practice?, Agrigento, Italy, October 2004, edited by Cesare Scutari and Arno Libotton , CESES, 2005, pp1-26 (on CD-ROM)
Sean Close and Elizabeth Oldham, Junior cycle mathematics examinations and the PISA mathematics framework, First National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI 1), St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 16-17 September 2005, edited by Sean Close, Therese Dooley and Dolores Corcoran , St. Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, 2005, pp185 - 204
Jude Cosgrove, Elizabeth Oldham and Sean Close, Assessment of mathematics in PISA 2003: achievements of Irish 15-year-old students in an international context, First National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI 1), St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 16-17 September 2005, edited by Sean Close, Therese Dooley and Dolores Corcoran , St. Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, 2005, pp205 - 219
Elizabeth Oldham, Solving problems with student-teachers: reactions and reflections 1995-2005, First National Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI 1), St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra, 16-17 September 2005, edited by Sean Close, Therese Dooley and Dolores Corcoran , St. Patrick's College of Education, Drumcondra, 2005, pp263 - 277
Seán Close, Elizabeth Oldham, Gerry Shiel, Therese Dooley, Deirdre Hackett and Michael O'Leary, The effects of calculator use on mathematics in schools and in the certificate examinations: Final report on phase I, Dublin, St. Patrick's College, 2004, xx + 126pp
Seán Close, Elizabeth Oldham, Deirdre Hackett, Therese Dooley, Gerry Shiel and Michael O'Leary, A study of the effects of calculator use in schools and in the certificate examinations - Summary report on phase I. Report to the Department of Education and Science, Dublin, St. Patrick's College, 2003, vii + 32pp
Elizabeth Oldham, Seán Close and John O'Donoghue, Models for pre-service teacher education in Ireland: case studies in mathematics education, Teacher education in the 21st Century, Limerick, 1998, edited by K. R. Byrne and M. Garofalo , 2000, pp429 - 455
Sheelagh Drudy and Elizabeth Oldham(ed.), Educating the educators, Dublin, November 1999, Educational Studies Association of Ireland, 2000, viii + 152 p
A. FitzGibbon and E. Oldham, Integrating reflection and information technology education, Integration of technology and reflection in teaching: a challenge for European teacher education - ATEE conference 1992, Lahti, Finland, September 1992, edited by A.-L. Leino, P. Hellgren and K. Hämänläinen , 1993, pp208 - 219
A model for introducing word processing, as a component of literacy in the new information technologies, for all student teachers in, editor(s)A. Libotton , Information and communication technology for teacher education: visions and realisations, Brussels, Association for Teacher Education in Europe, 1993, pp141 - 150, [E. Oldham and A. FitzGibbon]
Introductory word processing: student teachers' reactions in, editor(s)A. Libotton , Information and communication technology for teacher education: visions and realisations, Brussels, Association for Teacher Education in Europe, 1993, pp66 - 83, [A. FitzGibbon and E. Oldham]
E. E. Oldham, The changing curriculum - an international perspective, Fourth International Congress on Mathematical Education, Berkeley, California, August 10-16 1980, edited by Marilyn Zweng, Thomas Green, Jeremy Kilpatrick, Henry Pollak and Marilyn Suydam , Birkhauser, 1983, pp382 - 384
Elizabeth Oldham, Case studies in geometry education: Ireland, Comparative studies in mathematics curricula: change and stability 1960-1980, Bielefeld, Germany, January 1980, edited by H.-G. Steiner , 1980, pp326 - 346
Elizabeth Oldham, Case studies in algebra education: Ireland, Comparative studies in mathematics curricula: change and stability 1960-1980, Bielefeld, Germany, January 1980, edited by H.-G. Steiner , 1980, pp395 - 425
Research Expertise
Description
Mathematics education, in particular mathematics curriculum, teaching and learning; philosophies of mathematics education and their implications for teaching and learning; mathematical identity; teaching and learning (especially teaching and learning mathematics) with ICTs; computer programming and computational thinking in school curriculaProjects
- Title
- The Programming Studio
- Summary
- After decades in which there has been little focus on the teaching and learning of programming in schools, the topic has returned to prominence. In some countries, attempts are being made to balance the teaching of ICT skills, and/or using ICT in teaching and learning, by providing curricular opportunities for students to learn to program and to develop their computational thinking skills. This is the case in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. However, in both jurisdictions, there are concerns about the readiness of teachers to teach the relevant courses so that students reach an acceptable level of skill and understanding for national certification. "The Programming Studio," a collaborative project between Queen's University Belfast and Trinity College,addresses this issue. The chief aims of the project are to document the levels of programming expertise and readiness among teachers likely to be interested in teaching programming courses, and to allow a pilot group of teachers to experience programming as a "digital literacy" by mastering appropriate programming language(s) through games-based learning.
- Funding Agency
- SCoTENS (Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South)
- Date From
- 2013
- Date To
- 2015
- Title
- An exploration of Mathematical Identity using Narrative as a Tool (MINT)
- Summary
- The project involves investigating the Mathematical Identity of cohorts of student teachers and others who are, will be, or may be involved in mathematics teaching. The chief aim is to propose an efficient and effective protocol by which third level mathematics educators can explore the Mathematical Identities of their students, with a view to improving the teaching and learning of mathematics. The project is a partnership between mathematics educators at St. Patrick's College (Drumcondra), Stranmillis University College (Belfast), Trinity College Dublin, the University of Limerick, and the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Dun Laoghaire). A colleague from NUI Galway is acting as a consultant.
- Funding Agency
- SCoTENS (Standing Conference on Teacher Education North and South)
- Date From
- May 2011
- Date To
- October 2014
- Title
- The effect of calculator use on mathematics in schools and in Certificate examinations
- Summary
- Investigation of the effect of introducing calculators into the Junior Cycle Mathematics syllabus and the Junior Certificate examination
- Funding Agency
- Department of Education and Science
- Date From
- 1999
- Date To
- 2008
- Title
- Mathscify: Designing low threshold, high ceiling tasks that engage all students in problem solving and problem posing in STEM education
- Summary
- There is a pressing need to support teachers in assessment of skills developed through engagement in problem-solving and problem-posing tasks. The Mathscify project addresses this. The project team and collaborators are building a repository of tasks (on the website https://www.mathscify.org/), for each of which there will be resource material for students and teachers; the approach is underpinned by the principles of Universal Design for Learning. The teachers' materials will provide rubrics and other assessment materials for measuring and recording attainment of fundamental skills as students progress along a learning continuum for each one. The skills identified for inclusion reflect those used in cross-national studies of mathematics and science education, and are relevant for all STEM areas. The website content is or will be available in different languages, reflecting participants' different countries of origin.
- Funding Agency
- Association for Teacher Education in Europe
- Date From
- Autumn 2023
- Date To
- Open-ended
Recognition
Representations
Reviewer for Irish Educational Studies
Reviewer for the European Journal of Teacher Education
Memberships
Educational Studies Association of Ireland
Association for Teacher Education in Europe
Irish Mathematics Teachers' Association
Computers in Education Society of Ireland
Irish Mathematical Society