Julia Hill

University of Melbourne | MSD · Melbourne Graduate School for Education

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in examining values in relation to mathematics education research. Our exploratory study examines the mathematics education values of culturally diverse middle school students in New Zealand. We investigated how student values differed across demographic variables including school, ethnicity, gend...

In recent years, there has been an increasing focus on student wellbeing in schooling. Despite evidence of disengagement and anxiety related to mathematics, how wellbeing is experienced in individual subjects is vastly under researched. This research paper presents the findings of a study which explores the 'mathematical wellbeing' of 1281 grade 3...

Around the world the prevalence of mathematics anxiety and disengagement point to a poor sense of student ‘mathematical wellbeing’. Mathematical wellbeing is defined here as the fulfilment of one’s ultimate or core values, accompanied by positive feelings and functioning in mathematics education. Yet student wellbeing and how to support it in speci...

Globally, many students experience low mathematical wellbeing, defined here as the fulfilment of one’s core values, accompanied by positive feelings and functioning in the mathematics classroom. To increase positive feelings about and engagement in mathematics, there is a need to better understand students’ values and align practices to supporting...

Purpose The high incidence of mathematics anxiety and disengagement in mathematics points to poor student well-being in many mathematics classrooms. Poor well-being may arise in part from poor alignment between student values and classroom experiences. Yet, what student well-being is and how to support it within specific subjects is poorly understo...

Achieving equity for all mathematical learners is an urgent challenge for educators. Within New Zealand, Pāsifika students are at a much greater risk of underachievement than students from other ethnic groups (Caygill et al. in TIMSS 2015: New Zealand Year 5 Maths results. Comparative Education Research Unit, Ministry of Education, Wellington, 2016...

Classrooms around the world are becoming increasingly diverse. A major challenge faced by educators is achieving equity for all mathematics learners. To achieve equity, educators need to acknowledge and cater for this increasing diversity which includes attending to values of their students. Drawing on survey responses and individual interviews, th...

1 Julia L. Hill (julia.hill@ucl.ac.uk) 1 Anne Schlottmann (a.schlottmann@ucl.ac.uk) 2 Michelle R. Ellefson (mre33@cam.ac.uk) 2 Keith S. Taber (kst24@cam.ac.uk) 1 Venus W. S. Tse (wingsum1216@gmail.com) 1 Tiffany S.W. Yung (see.yung.11@ucl.ac.uk) Abstract Many properties of substances/materials are intensive, and children are widely believed to have...

Treatment of children who develop schizophrenia in childhood and early adolescence presents unique considerations. There has been increasing attention to the importance of early intervention and whether treatment effects may be affected by brain development. Several recent trials support the use of antipsychotics for treatment of schizophrenia in c...