Judit Moschkovich, Professor of Education
Email: jmoschko@ucsc.edu
Office: Social Sciences 1, Room 235
Phone: 831-459-2004
Fax: 831-459-4618
Office Hours: Days/times vary each quarter. See signup sheet on office door.

Bio

Judit Moschkovich's research focuses on mathematics cognition and sociocultural approaches to mathematics learning. She has developed a research agenda in three main areas:

• The transition from arithmetic to algebraic thinking, especially representations of functions
• Mathematical discourse practices
• Learning and teaching mathematics in classrooms with bilingual Latino/a students and English learners

Her research has concentrated on describing student understanding of algebraic and graphical representations of functions, examining conceptual change in mathematics, and examining mathematical discourse practices in and out of school. The classroom research she has conducted has been in middle and high school mathematics classrooms with a large proportion of Latino students. In her recent publications, she has examined the relationship between language and learning mathematics and analyzed mathematical discussions among bilingual Latino/a students.

Judit Moschkovich came to the Education Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1999. She is a former mathematics instructor, having taught mathematics courses at San Francisco State University, Golden Gate University, the Upward Bound Program at USF, and the Yo Puedo Program at UCSC. She conducted her PhD work at UC Berkeley in the Department of Education in Mathematics Science and Technology (EMST). She was awarded the Presidential Grants for School Improvement Research Recognition Award for her dissertation in 1992 and taught courses as a lecturer in EMST from 1992-1993. She was a Researcher at IRL (Institute for Research on Learning) in Palo Alto from 1993-1998, where she collaborated in the MMAP (Middle School Mathematics through Applications) project, worked on designing assessment materials, and conducted research in mathematics classrooms. While at IRL she was awarded a National Science Foundation Research Planning Grant and a National Academy of Education (Spencer) Postdoctoral Fellowship (1995-1997). She worked at TERC in Cambridge, MA from 1998-1999, collaborating with the Cheche Konnen project. While at TERC she was Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to support the research project “Mathematical discourse in bilingual settings:  Teaching and learning mathematics in two languages.” She is currently a Principal Investigator at UCSC for the NSF funded “Center for Mathematics Education of Latinos/as” (CEMELA), a Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT).

She was the co-editor, with M. Brenner, of the JRME monograph Number 11, “Everyday and academic mathematics:  Implications for the classroom” and has published several articles and book chapters in her three research areas. She has served on the Editorial Panel for the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, the Review Board for the Journal for the Learning Sciences, and as the Chair for the AERA SIG-Research in Mathematics Education from 2004-2006.