Calidad del apoyo para el aprendizaje de las matemáticas en la transición a la Universidad.

Maria is currently holding a joint position, as a Lecturer and research fellow, at the Institute of Education and the Social Statistics group, at the University of Manchester. Her role involves leading an ESRC funded project in mathematics education (www.teleprism.com), and delivering courses in advanced quantitative methods. Her research expertise spreads along the spectrum of educational studies, focussing in teachers’ knowledge and practices and students’ attitudes and progress in their educational trajectories. She is particularly interested in the association between teaching practices and students’ learning outcomes. Methodologically, her expertise and interests lie within evaluation and measurement, and advanced quantitative methods, including complex survey design, longitudinal data analysis, and missing data and imputation techniques.

Graeme’s teaching and research interests are broadly in the area of methodology and data analysis. His PhD was a study into the acquisition of complex syntax in children and since then he has worked on a number of projects from a wide range of research areas including the conversational behaviour of children, interviewing techniques used on child witnesses, alcohol use in the workplace, the application of knowledge-based expert systems, the application of generalized linear models in predictive modelling, multi-level analysis of data related to Inclusion and Pupil achievement, an assessment of the Early Support Project (DfES) and a project investigating mathematically demanding F and HE programmes.

Julian Williams is Professor of Mathematics Education at The University of Manchester, where he led a series of ESRC-funded “Transmaths” (www.transmaths.org) research projects that investigated mathematics education in the post-compulsory transitions from school to university. He has a longstanding interest in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment in mathematics and across STEM, in mathematical modelling, and in links with vocational and outside-school mathematics. This work has led to interests in social theory and the political economy of education.