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GSE Profiles
Staff Contact: Kate Capps
Alan H. Schoenfeld
Professor
Cognition and Development
Office: 4653 Tolman Hall
Phone: 510-642-0968
Email: alans at berkeley.edu
URL: gse.berkeley.edu/research/functions/
Office: CD/EMST
Phone: 510-642-4206
Email: kate at berkeley.edu
Alan Schoenfeld holds the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Chair in Education. He has served as President of the American Educational Research Association and Vice President of the National Academy of Education. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Pi.
Schoenfeld's research deals with thinking, teaching, and learning. His book Mathematical Problem Solving characterized what it means to think mathematically and described a research-based undergraduate course in mathematical problem solving. Schoenfeld led the Balanced Assessment project and was one of the leaders of the NSF-sponsored center for Diversity in Mathematics Education. He was lead author for grades 9-12 of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. He was one of the founding editors of Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education, and has served as associate editor of Cognition and Instruction. He has served as senior advisor to the Educational Human Resources Directorate of the National Science Foundation, and senior content advisor to the What Works Clearinghouse.
Schoenfeld's research focus has been the construction of a theory of human decision making, the key question being "How and why do people make the decisions they do, in the midst of complex activities such as teaching?" His book How we think: A theory of goal-oriented decision making and its educational applications describes the theory and establishes a framework for thinking about issues of teachers' professional growth and development. Schoenfeld's current projects (the Algebra Teaching Study, funded by NSF; the Mathematics Assessment Project, funded by the Gates Foundation; and work with the San Francisco Unified School District under the auspices of the National Research Council's SERP project) all focus on understanding and enhancing mathematics teaching and learning.
Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1973, Stanford University
M.S. in Mathematics, 1969, Stanford University
B.A. in Mathematics, 1968, Queens College, New York
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BooksSchoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (1983). Problem solving in the mathematics curriculum: A report, recommendations, and an annotated bibliography. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (1985). Mathematical problem solving. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (1987). Cognitive science and mathematics education. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Burkhardt, H., Groves, S., Schoenfeld, A. H., and Stacey, K. (Eds.) (1988). Problem solving: A world view (Proceedings of the problem solving theme group at the V International Congress on Mathematical Education, Adelaide, Australia). Nottingham, England: Shell Centre for Mathematical Education.
diSessa, A, Gardner, M., Greeno, J., Reif, F., & Schoenfeld, A. H. (Eds.) (1990). Toward a scientific practice of science education. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (1990). A Source Book for College Mathematics Teaching. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (1992). Research methods in and for the learning sciences, a special issue of The Journal of the Learning Sciences, Volume 2, No. 2.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (1994). Mathematical thinking and problem solving. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Dubinsky, E., Schoenfeld, A. H., & Kaput, J. (Eds.) (1994). Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education. I. Washington, DC: Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
Kaput, J. Schoenfeld, A. H., & Dubinsky, E., (Eds.) (1996). Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education. II. Washington, DC: Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (1997). Student Assessment in Calculus A report of the NSF Working Group on Assessment in Calculus. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America.
Schoenfeld, A. H., Kaput, J., & Dubinsky, E. (Eds.) (1998). Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education. III. Washington, DC: Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (1998) Issues in Education, Volume 4, Number 1. The issue presents and critiques Schoenfeld's theory of teaching-in-context.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (1999) (Special Issue Editor). Examining the Complexity of Teaching. Special issue of the Journal of Mathematical Behavior , 18 (3).
Dubinsky, E., Schoenfeld, A. H., & Kaput, J. (Eds.) (2000). Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education. IV. Washington, DC: Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences.
Ferrini-Mundy, J., Joyner, J., Reyes, B., Schoenfeld, A. H., & E. Silver, E. (Eds.) (2000). Principles and standards for school mathematics. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Holton, D., Artigue, M., Kirchgraber, U, Hillel, J., Niss, M. & Schoenfeld, H. (Eds.) (2001). The teaching and learning of mathematics at the University Level. Dordrecht: Kluwer.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (2007). Assessing Mathematical proficiency. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Toerner, G., Schoenfeld, A. H., & Reiss, K. (Eds.). (2007) Problem Solving Around the World - Summing up the State of the Art. Special issue of the Zentralblatt fur Didaktik der Mathematik, 39(5-6). Issue 1, 2008.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (Ed.) (2008). A study of teaching: Multiple lenses, multiple views. Volume 14 in the Journal for research in Mathematics Education monograph series. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Darling-Hammond, L. Barron, B., Pearson, P.D., Schoenfeld, A.H., Zimmerman, T., Cervettti, G., & Tilson, J. (2008). Powerful Learning. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2010). How we think: A theory of goal-oriented decision making and its educational applications. New York: Routledge. (See below for a downloadable version of the introduction and some of the analytic tables from the book; click on How we Think for access to the book.)
Articles (Refereed Journals, Proceeding)Selected Downloadable Articles
If the pdf file does not display in your brower, please download to your computer and use Adobe Reader (right-click or control-click the link and save to disk).Looking Toward The 21st Century: Challenges of Educational Theory and Practice (pdf file)
Mathematics Teaching and Learning (pdf file)
Purposes and Methods of Research in Mathematics Education (pdf file)
Toward a Theory of Teaching-In-Context (pdf file)
A Highly Interactive Discourse Structure (pdf file)
What Do We Know About Mathematics Curricula? (pdf file)
Reply to Comments From the What Works Clearinghouse on "What Doesn't Work" (pdf file)
Toward a Theory of Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics (pdf file)
Working with Schools: The Story of a Mathematics Education Collaboration (pdf file)
Instructional Research and the Improvement of Practice (pdf file)
Selected downloads from How We Think
A taste of How we think (pdf file)
Selected journal articles and book chapters, from 2005
Grossman, P., Schoenfeld, A., & Lee, C. (2005). Teaching subject matter. In L. Darling-Hammond & J. Bransford (Eds.), Preparing teachers for a changing world (pp. 201-231). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2005). Curriculum Development, Teaching, and Assessment. In L. Santos, A. Canavarro, & J. Brocardo (Eds.), Proceedings of the international meeting in honour of Paulo Abrantes. Mathematics Education: Paths and crossroads, pp. 13-41. Lisbon, Portugal: Associacao de Professores de Matematica.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2005). On Learning Environments that Foster Subject-Matter Competence. I L. Verschaffel, E. De Corte, G. Kanselaar and M. Valcke (Eds), Powerful environments for promoting deep conceptual and strategic learning, pp. 29-44. Leuven, Belgium: Studia Paedagogica.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2006). Design experiments. In P. B. Elmore, G. Camilli, & J. Green (Eds.), Handbook of Complementary Methods in Education Research (pp. 193-206). Washington, DC & Mahwah, NJ: American Educational Research Association and Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2006). Mathematics teaching and learning. In P. A. Alexander & P. H. Winne (Eds.), Handbook of Educational Psychology (2nd edition) (pp. 479-510). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2006). Notes on the Educational Steeplechase: Hurdles and Jumps in the Development of Research-Based Mathematics Instruction. In Mark Constas and Robert Sternberg (Eds.), Translating Theory and Research into Educational Practice (pp. 9-30). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2006). Problem Solving from Cradle to Grave. Annales de Didactique et de Sciences Cognitives, 11, 41-73.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2006). What Doesn÷t Work: The Challenge and Failure of the What Works Clearinghouse to Conduct Meaningful Reviews of Studies of Mathematics Curricula. Educational Researcher, 35(2), 13-21.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2006). Reply to Comments From the What Works Clearinghouse on What Doesn÷t Work. Educational Researcher, 35(2), 23.
Diversity in Mathematics Education Center. (2007). Culture, Race, Power, and Mathematics Education. In F. Lester (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning. (Second Edition), pp. 405-434. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2007). Method. In F. Lester (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Second Edition), pp. 69-107. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2007). The Complexities of assessing teacher knowledge. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 5(2-3),198-204.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2007). Issues and Tensions in the Assessment of Mathematical Proficiency. In A. H. Schoenfeld (Ed.), Assessing Mathematical proficiency (pp. 3-15) . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2007). Reflections on an Assessment Interview: What a Close Look at Student Understanding can Reveal. In A. H. Schoenfeld (Ed.), Assessing Mathematical proficiency (pp. 269-277). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2007). What is Mathematical Proficiency (and how can it be assessed)? In A. H. Schoenfeld (Ed.), Assessing Mathematical proficiency (pp. 59-73). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Using statistics effectively in mathematics education research: A report from a series of workshops organized by the American Statistical Association with funding from the National Science Foundation Working Group on Statistics in Mathematics Education Research. (2007) Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association.
Arcavi, A., & Schoenfeld, A. H. (2008). Using the Unfamiliar to Problematize the Familiar. Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 8(3), 280295.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2008). On Modeling Teachers' In-The-Moment Decision-Making. In A. H. Schoenfeld, (Ed.) A study of teaching: Multiple lenses, multiple views. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education monograph series. Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2008). Problem Solving in The United States, 1970-2008: Research and Theory, Practice and Politics. In G. Toerner, A. H. Schoenfeld, & K. Reiss (Eds.). Problem Solving Around the World - Summing up the State of the Art. Special issue of the Zentralblatt fur Didaktik der Mathematik: Issue 1, 2008.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2008). Research Methods in (Mathematics) Education. In Lyn English (Ed.), Handbook of international research in mathematics education, second edition (pp. 467-519). New York: Routledge.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2009). Working with Schools: The Story of a Mathematics Education Collaboration. American Mathematical Monthly, 116(3), 197-217.
Schoenfeld, A. H., & Kilpatrick, J. (2008) Toward a Theory of Proficiency in Teaching Mathematics. In D. Tirosh & T. Wood (Eds.), International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education, Volume 2: Tools and Processes in Mathematics Teacher Education (pp. 321-354). Rotterdam, Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2009). Instructional Research and the Improvement of Practice. In John D. Bransford, Deborah J. Stipek, Nancy J. Vye, Louis M. Gomez and Diana Lam (Eds.), Educational Improvement: What Makes It Happen and Why? (pp. 161-188). Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2009). Bridging the cultures of educational research and design. Educational Designer 1(2): http://www.educationaldesigner.org/ed/volume1/issue2/.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2009, October). A Welcome Focus: An Essay Review of the NCTM High School Curriculum Project's Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense-Making. Mathematics Teacher, 103(3), 168-171.
Schoenfeld, A. H., & Pearson, P. D. (2009) The reading and math wars. In G. Sykes, B. Schneider, & D. Plank (Eds.), Handbook of Education Policy Research (pp. 560-580). New York: Routledge.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2009). Why do we teach? Kappa Delta Pi Record, 46(1), 26-29.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2010). Reflections of an accidental theorist. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 41(2), 104-116.
Schoenfeld, A. H. (2010). Reflections on teacher expertise. In Y. Li and G. Kaiser (Eds.), Expertise in mathematics instruction: An international perspective (pp. 327-342). New York: Springer.
Workshops
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Lester R. Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America, 1980.
National Academy of Education, 1994. Executive Board, 1995, Vice president, 2001 - 2006.
President of the American Educational research Association, 1998.
Special Professor, University of Nottingham, 1994 - present.
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2001.
Welling Professor, George Washington University, 2001 - 2004.
Laureate, Kappa Delta Pi, 2006.
Senior Scholar Award, Special Interest Group for Research in Mathematics Education (SIG/RME) of the American Educational Research Association
Distinguished lectureships: the American Society for Engineering Education; The University of Michigan; North Carolina State University; The University of Washington; George Washington University.
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