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Arthur Bakker is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and psychology, with a focus on education and various psychological subfields. Their work addresses topics related to experimental and cognitive psychology, developmental and educational psychology, as well as statistics and probability, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main areas of study for Bakker include education, with significant attention to statistics education and methodologies. They also focus on visual and cognitive learning processes, mathematics education and teaching techniques, innovative teaching and learning methods, embodied and extended cognition, creativity in education and neuroscience, and education and critical thinking development.

Bakker has published notably in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication platforms include:

  • Educational Studies in Mathematics
  • Journal for Research in Mathematics Education
  • Frontline Learning Research
  • Educational Researcher
  • International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

Their recent papers illustrate themes in mathematics education research and the impact of the pandemic on learning and teaching. Notable recent papers include:

  • Future themes of mathematics education research: an international survey before and during the pandemic (2021) in Educational Studies in Mathematics
  • Pandemic: lessons for today and tomorrow? (2020) in Educational Studies in Mathematics
  • Affective field during collaborative problem posing and problem solving: a case study (2020) in Educational Studies in Mathematics
  • Relevance of Educational Research: An Ontological Conceptualization (2021) in Educational Researcher
  • Embodied instrumentation in learning mathematics as the genesis of a body-artifact functional system (2021) in Educational Studies in Mathematics

Bakker has worked with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Paul Drijvers
  • Rosa Alberto
  • Elma Blom
  • Jinfa Cai
  • Linda Zenger

Best Publications

  • Boundary Crossing and Boundary Objects

    Sanne F. Akkerman;Arthur Bakker

  • Design research in statistics education : on symbolizing and computer tools

    Arthur Bakker

  • LEARNING TO REASON ABOUT DISTRIBUTION

    Arthur Bakker;Koeno P. E. Gravemeijer

  • An Introduction to Design-Based Research with an Example From Statistics Education

    Arthur Bakker;Dolly van Eerde

  • Beyond small, medium, or large: Points of consideration when interpreting effect sizes

    Arthur Bakker;Jinfa Cai;Lyn English;Gabriele Kaiser

  • A conceptualisation of whole-class scaffolding

    Jantien Smit;Henriëtte A. A. van Eerde;Arthur Bakker

  • Crossing Boundaries Between School and Work During Apprenticeships

    Sanne F. Akkerman;Arthur Bakker

  • Design Research in Education: A Practical Guide for Early Career Researchers

    Arthur Bakker

  • Scaffolding and dialogic teaching in mathematics education: introduction and review

    Arthur Bakker;Jantien Smit;Rupert Wegerif

  • Improving Mathematics at Work: The Need for Techno-Mathematical Literacies

    Celia Hoyles;Richard Noss;Phillip Kent;Arthur Bakker

  • The reasoning behind informal statistical inference

    Katie Makar;Arthur Bakker;Dani Ben-Zvi

  • Lessons from Inferentialism for Statistics Education

    Arthur Bakker;Jan Derry

  • Effects of innovative science and mathematics teaching on student attitudes and achievement: A meta-analytic study

    Elwin R. Savelsbergh;Gjalt T. Prins;Charlotte Rietbergen;Sabine Fechner

  • Technology for enhancing statistical reasoning at the school level

    Rolph Biehler;Dani Ben-Zvi;Arthur Bakker;Katie Makar

  • Reasoning about Shape as a Pattern in Variability

    Arthur Bakker

  • Learning at the boundary: An introduction

    Sanne F. Akkerman;Sanne F. Akkerman;Arthur Bakker

  • Future themes of mathematics education research: an international survey before and during the pandemic

    Arthur Bakker;Jinfa Cai;Linda Zenger

  • SHOULD YOUNG STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT BOX PLOTS

    Arthur Bakker;Clifford Konold;Rolf Biehler

  • Pandemic: lessons for today and tomorrow?

    Arthur Bakker;David Wagner

  • Making sense of movement in embodied design for mathematics learning

    Dor Abrahamson;Arthur Bakker

  • Diagrammatic reasoning as the basis for developing concepts: A semiotic analysis of students' learning about statistical distribution

    Arthur Bakker;Arthur Bakker;Michael H. G. Hoffmann;Michael H. G. Hoffmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Celia Hoyles
Celia Hoyles University College London
Richard Noss
Richard Noss University College London
Sanne Akkerman
Sanne Akkerman Utrecht University
Jinfa Cai
Jinfa Cai University of Delaware
Tamara van Gog
Tamara van Gog Utrecht University
James Hiebert
James Hiebert University of Delaware
Evelyn H. Kroesbergen
Evelyn H. Kroesbergen Radboud University
Douwe Beijaard
Douwe Beijaard Eindhoven University of Technology
Paul P.M. Leseman
Paul P.M. Leseman Utrecht University
Lyn D. English
Lyn D. English Queensland University of Technology

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