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Associate Professor Dung Tran

Associate Professor, Education

Campus

Mt Helen Campus

Biography

Dr Dũng Trần is Associate Professor in Mathematics and STEM Education at the Institute of Education, Arts and Community. His research focuses on (a) designing and implementing curriculum to improve diverse students' mathematical literacy, and abilities to use mathematics and statistics to be functional and critical in the home, civic, and work-life; and (b) developing teacher competence to teach students mathematics, using holistic approaches. He has extensive experience in curriculum analysis and development at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. He also works with preservice and inservice teachers in several countries to develop their mathematics teaching competence. He has expertise in document analysis, design-based research, clinical (task-based) interviews, and using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Associate Professor Trần is passionate about empowering Mathematics/STEM teachers to integrate ‘real-life’ problem solving and equity and social justice principles into Mathematics education. He maintains that teachers are the key agent in significantly improving student learning and that pedagogical content knowledge is foundational for these improvements. Associate Professor Trần’s research focuses on improving teacher competence to help shape their productive beliefs about Mathematics teaching and learning and building their subject matter knowledge and research-informed, student-oriented pedagogical strategies.

  • Publications

Measuring preservice teacher beliefs about mathematics and mathematics teaching: an evaluation of the TEDS-M beliefs scale

Pre-service teachers' feedback on their peers' lesson plans

Systems thinking, design thinking, computational thinking, and critical thinking

Quantitative reasoning as a lens to examine changes in modelling competencies of secondary preservice teachers