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Accreditation Report 2002
Core Campuses: Bloomington and Indianapolis
for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education
and the Indiana Professional Standards Board

Faculty Vita

N. Kathryn Essex

Title: Associate Instructor for the School of Education
Office: W. W. Wright Education Building, room
Campus: Bloomington
Year of appointment: 1999


Academic Degrees

B.S. Indiana University 1986 Elementary Education

Professional Experience

1999-present Inservice Workshop Co-Leader, Bloomington, Brownsburg Community School Corporation, and Indianapolis Public Schools, Indiana
1999-2001 Associate Instructor, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
1987-1990 Elementary Teacher, District of Columbia Public Schools
1987- Middle School Mathematics and Science Teacher, St. Benedict the Moor School, Washington, D.C.

Faculty Teaching

Fall, 2001 M501 Laboratory/Field Experience (graduate students)

Selected Publications

    Essex, N.K., Lambdin, D.V. & McGraw, R.H. (In press). Racing against time: using technology to explore distance, rate, and time. Teaching Children Mathematics.

    Arbaugh, F., Scholten, C.M. and Essex, N.K. (2001). Data in the middle grades: A probability webquest. Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 7(2), 90-95.

Current Professional and Academic Association Memberships

    American Educational Research Association
    SIG: Research in Mathematics Education
    National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
    Psychology of Mathematics Education

Conference Presentations

    Kloosterman, P., Tassell, J. H., Ponniah, A. G., & Essex, N. K. (2001, April). Mathematics as a gendered domain in the United States. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle.

    Galindo, E., Galindo, H., Siebold, R., McGraw, R. & Essex, K. (1999, April). Principles and standards for school mathematics in electronic format: the possibilities and what we are learning from users. Paper presented at the Research Presession of the Annual Meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, San Francisco.

Research Areas

    I am interested in the development of children's mathematical thinking and problem solving.

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