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Overview

Chris Rasmussen is affiliated with San Diego State University in the United States. Their research spans various aspects of social sciences, with a particular focus on education. Their primary subfields of study include education, developmental and educational psychology, media technology, modeling and simulation, and statistics and probability.

The main topics covered in Rasmussen's research are:

  • Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques
  • Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Experimental Learning in Engineering
  • Mathematics Education and Programs
  • Innovative Teaching Methods
  • Online and Blended Learning

Rasmussen has contributed to a number of recent papers, including:

  • Leveraging the design heuristics of realistic mathematics education and culturally responsive pedagogy to create a richer flipped classroom calculus curriculum (2020, ZDM)
  • Time for (Research on) Change in Mathematics Departments (2020, International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education)
  • Instructional leadership structures across five university departments (2020, Higher Education)
  • Towards an argumentative grammar for networking: a case of coordinating two approaches (2020, Educational Studies in Mathematics)
  • In the Driver's Seat: Course Coordinators as Change Agents for Active Learning in University Precalculus to Calculus 2 (2021, International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education)

Frequent coauthors in Rasmussen's work include:

  • Naneh Apkarian
  • Michal Tabach
  • Tommy Dreyfus
  • Matthew Voigt
  • Antonio Estevan Martinez

Rasmussen has published extensively in venues such as:

  • International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education
  • ZDM
  • PRIMUS
  • International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology
  • European Mathematical Society Magazine

In addition to journal articles, Rasmussen has contributed to book publications through established publishers. Notable book titles include:

  • Practice-Oriented Research in Tertiary Mathematics Education (2022, Springer Nature)
  • Stackable Credential Pipelines and Equity for Low-Income Individuals: Evidence from Colorado and Ohio (2023, RAND Corporation eBooks)

Best Publications

  • Women 1.5 Times More Likely to Leave STEM Pipeline after Calculus Compared to Men: Lack of Mathematical Confidence a Potential Culprit.

    Jessica Ellis;Bailey K. Fosdick;Chris Rasmussen

  • Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education. I

    Shandy Hauk;Chris Rasmussen;Nicole Engelke Infante;Elise Lockwood

  • Effects of Standards-Based Mathematics Education: A Study of the Core-Plus Mathematics Project Algebra and Functions Strand

    Mary Ann Huntley;Chris L. Rasmussen;Roberto S. Villarubi;Jaruwan Sangtong

  • An inquiry-oriented approach to undergraduate mathematics

    Chris Rasmussen;Oh Nam Kwon

  • Advancing Mathematical Activity: A Practice-Oriented View of Advanced Mathematical Thinking.

    Chris Rasmussen;Michelle Zandieh;Karen King;Anne Teppo

  • New directions in differential equations: A framework for interpreting students' understandings and difficulties

    Chris L Rasmussen

  • Pedagogical Content Tools: Integrating Student Reasoning and Mathematics in Instruction

    Chris Rasmussen;Karen A. Marrongelle

  • I on the Prize: Inquiry Approaches in Undergraduate Mathematics

    Sandra L. Laursen;Chris Rasmussen

  • Classroom mathematical practices in differential equations

    Michelle Stephan;Chris Rasmussen

  • Social and sociomathematical norms in an advanced undergraduate mathematics course

    Erna Yackel;Chris Rasmussen;Karen King

  • The calculus student: insights from the Mathematical Association of America national study

    David M. Bressoud;Marilyn P. Carlson;Vilma Mesa;Chris Rasmussen

  • Defining as a mathematical activity: A framework for characterizing progress from informal to more formal ways of reasoning

    Michelle Zandieh;Chris Rasmussen

  • Locating starting points in differential equations: a realistic mathematics education approach

    Chris L. Rasmussen;Karen D. King

  • Students' Retention of Mathematical Knowledge and Skills in Differential Equations.

    Oh Nam Kwon;Chris Rasmussen;Karen Allen

  • When the Classroom Floor Becomes the Complex Plane: Addition and Multiplication as Ways of Bodily Navigation.

    Ricardo Nemirovsky;Chris Rasmussen;George Sweeney;Megan Wawro

  • Beliefs and Norms in the Mathematics Classroom

    Erna Yackel;Chris Rasmussen

  • Research on calculus: what do we know and where do we need to go?

    Chris Rasmussen;Karen Marrongelle;Marcelo C. Borba

  • Classroom mathematical practices and gesturing

    Chris Rasmussen;Michelle Stephan;Karen Allen

  • An Inquiry-Oriented Approach to Span and Linear Independence: The Case of the Magic Carpet Ride Sequence

    Megan Wawro;Chris Rasmussen;Michelle Zandieh;George Franklin Sweeney

  • A Methodology for Documenting Collective Activity

    Chris Rasmussen;Michelle Stephan

  • Capitalizing on advances in mathematics and k-12 mathematics education in undergraduate mathematics: An inquiry-oriented approach to differential equations

    Chris Rasmussen;Oh Nam Kwon;Karen Allen;Karen A. Marrongelle

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Henderson
Charles Henderson Western Michigan University
Noah D. Finkelstein
Noah D. Finkelstein University of Colorado Boulder
Baruch B. Schwarz
Baruch B. Schwarz Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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