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D-Index
44
Citations
21428
World Ranking
3973
National Ranking
1887

Mary Kay Stein publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mary Kay Stein sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 116 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Mary Kay Stein D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Mary Kay Stein sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 44 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Mary Kay Stein is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research spans the field of Social Sciences, with a focus on Education and related subfields such as Statistics and Probability, Information Systems and Management, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Ecology.

The main topics covered in their work include Mathematics Education and Teaching Techniques, Cognitive and Developmental Aspects of Mathematical Skills, Science Education and Pedagogy, Educational Assessment and Improvement, Teacher Education and Leadership Studies, Statistics Education and Methodologies, and Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Mary Kay Stein include the following:

  • Theory and Research on Tasks Revisited: Task as a Context for Students' Thinking in the Era of Ambitious Reforms in Mathematics and Science (2020, Educational Researcher)
  • Mathematics Coaching for Conceptual Understanding: Promising Evidence Regarding the Tennessee Math Coaching Model (2020, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis)
  • Teaching Mathematics for Conceptual Understanding: Teachers' Beliefs and Practices and the Role of Constraints (2020, Journal for Research in Mathematics Education)
  • Coach learning to help teachers learn to enact conceptually rich, student-focused mathematics lessons (2021, Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education)
  • Constructing Goals for Student Learning through Conversation (2020, Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mary Kay Stein are:

  • Richard Correnti
  • Bilge Yurekli
  • Christian D. Schunn
  • Jennifer Lin Russell
  • Victoria Bill

The venues where Mary Kay Stein most frequently publishes include the Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, Mathematics Teacher Learning and Teaching PK-12, Educational Researcher, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education.

Mary Kay Stein was recognized with the title of Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Building Student Capacity for Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning: An Analysis of Mathematical Tasks Used in Reform Classrooms

    Mary Kay Stein;Barbara W. Grover;Marjorie Henningsen

  • Functions, Graphs, and Graphing: Tasks, Learning, and Teaching

    Gaea Leinhardt;Orit Zaslavsky;Mary Kay Stein

  • Orchestrating Productive Mathematical Discussions: Five Practices for Helping Teachers Move Beyond Show and Tell

    Mary Kay Stein;Randi A. Engle;Margaret S. Smith;Elizabeth K. Hughes

  • Mathematical Tasks and Student Cognition: Classroom-Based Factors That Support and Inhibit High-Level Mathematical Thinking and Reasoning.

    Marjorie Henningsen;Mary Kay Stein

  • Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development

    Mary Kay Stein;Margaret Schwan Smith;Marjorie A. Henningsen;Edward A. Silver

  • Teacher development and school improvement: The process of teacher change☆

    Mary Kay Stein;Margaret C. Wang

  • Mathematical Tasks as a Framework for Reflection: From Research To Practice.

    Mary Kay Stein;Margaret Schwan Smith

  • Instructional Tasks and the Development of Student Capacity to Think and Reason: An Analysis of the Relationship between Teaching and Learning in a Reform Mathematics Project

    Mary Kay Stein;Suzanne Lane

  • Reflections on Practice: Selecting and Creating Mathematical Tasks: From Research to Practice

    Margaret Schwan Smith;Mary Kay Stein

  • The Development of Professional Developers: Learning to Assist Teachers in New Settings in New Ways

    Mary Kay Stein;Margaret Schwan Smith;Edward A. Silver

  • Leadership Content Knowledge.

    Mary Kay Stein;Barbara S. Nelson

  • 5 Practices for Orchestrating Productive Mathematics Discussions

    Margareth S Smith;Mary Kay Stein

  • The Quasar Project: The "Revolution of the Possible" in Mathematics Instructional Reform in Urban Middle Schools

    Edward A. Silver;Mary Kay Stein

  • Selecting and Creating Mathematical Tasks: From Research To Practice.

    Margaret Schwan Smith;Mary Kay Stein

  • “You're going to want to find out which and prove it”: collective argumentation in a mathematics classroom

    Ellice A. Forman;Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns;Jorge Larreamendy-Joerns;Mary Kay Stein;Catherine A. Brown

  • Reform as Learning: School Reform, Organizational Culture, and Community Politics in San Diego

    Lea Hubbard;Hugh Mehan;Mary Kay Stein

  • Subject-Matter Knowledge and Elementary Instruction: A Case from Functions and Graphing:

    Mary Kay Stein;Juliet A. Baxter;Gaea Leinhardt

  • Supporting Sustainability: Teachers’ Advice Networks and Ambitious Instructional Reform

    Cynthia E. Coburn;Jennifer L. Russell;Julia Heath Kaufman;Mary Kay Stein

  • Communities of Practice Theory and the Role of Teacher Professional Community in Policy Implementation

    Cynthia Ellen Coburn;Mary Kay Stein

  • MATHEMATICS REFORM AND TEACHER DEVELOPMENT: A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE PERSPECTIVE

    Mary Kay Stein;Edward A. Silver;Margaret Schwan Smith

  • Implementing Standards-Based Mathematics Instruction: A Casebook for Professional Development. Second Edition.

    Mary Kay Stein;Margaret Schwan Smith;Marjorie A. Henningsen;Edward A. Silver

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian D. Schunn
Christian D. Schunn University of Pittsburgh
Cynthia E. Coburn
Cynthia E. Coburn Northwestern University
Gaea Leinhardt
Gaea Leinhardt University of Pittsburgh
Susan R. Goldman
Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago
Lauren B. Resnick
Lauren B. Resnick University of Pittsburgh
Brian J. Reiser
Brian J. Reiser Northwestern University
William R. Penuel
William R. Penuel University of Colorado Boulder
Kris D. Gutiérrez
Kris D. Gutiérrez University of California, Berkeley
R. Keith Sawyer
R. Keith Sawyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
James P. Spillane
James P. Spillane Northwestern University

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