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Overview

Terezinha Nunes is a researcher affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Social Sciences, and Mathematics, with a particular focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as education.

Their research topics cover a variety of areas including mathematics education and teaching techniques, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, reading and literacy development, writing and handwriting education, hearing impairment and communication, child and animal learning development, and educational assessment and pedagogy.

Recent publications by Terezinha Nunes include the following papers:

  • "Do children use logic to spell logician? Implicit versus explicit teaching of morphological spelling rules" (2021), published in the British Journal of Educational Psychology
  • "LEARNING FRACTIONS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL SHOULD FOCUS ON REASONING OR ARITHMETIC?" (2021), published in ICERI proceedings
  • "School Mathematics" (2020), published in The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development
  • "Replication in educational interventions: developing a tool to measure and promote fidelity" (2024), published in the International Journal of Research & Method in Education

Their frequent coauthors include Lauren Burton, Maria Evangelou, Constanza Moreno, Peter Bryant, and Rossana Barros.

The main venues where their research is published include the British Journal of Educational Psychology, ICERI proceedings, The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development, and the International Journal of Research & Method in Education.

Best Publications

  • Street mathematics and school mathematics

    Terezinha Nunes;Analucia Dias Schliemann;David William Carraher

  • Children doing mathematics

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant

  • Morphological spelling strategies: Developmental stages and processes.

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant;Miriam Bindman

  • Improving literacy by teaching morphemes

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant

  • Learning Morphological and Phonological Spelling Rules: An Intervention Study

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant;Jenny Olsson

  • Deaf children's social relationships in mainstream schools

    Terezinha Nunes;Ursula Pretzlik;Jenny Olsson

  • The contribution of logical reasoning to the learning of mathematics in primary school

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant;Deborah Evans;Daniel Bell

  • Individual differences in conceptual and procedural knowledge when learning fractions.

    Darcy Hallett;Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant

  • An intervention program for promoting deaf pupils' achievement in mathematics.

    Terezinha Nunes;Constanza Moreno

  • Tools for Thought: The Measurement of Length and Area.

    T. Nunes;P. Light;J. Mason

  • The Performance of Young Deaf Children in Spatial and Temporal Number Tasks.

    Yael Zarfaty;Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant

  • Young children's understanding of division: The relationship between division terms in a noncomputational task.

    Jane Correa;Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant

  • The effects of learning to spell on children’s awareness of morphology

    Terezinha Nunes;P. Bryant;Miriam Bindman

  • Learning and Teaching Mathematics: An International Perspective

    Peter Bryant;Terezinha Nunes

  • Children's understanding of the formal and functional characteristics of written Chinese

    Lily Chan;Terezinha Nunes

  • Handbook of children's literacy

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant

  • The relative importance of two different mathematical abilities to mathematical achievement

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant;Rossana Barros;Kathy Sylva

  • Learning To Spell Regular and Irregular Verbs.

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant;Miriam Bindman

  • The role of different levels of phonological awareness in the development of reading and spelling in Greek

    Athanasios Aidinis;Terezinha Nunes

  • The development of word recognition and its significance for comprehension and fluency

    Terezinha Nunes;Peter Bryant;Rossana Barros

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Bryant
Peter Bryant University of Oxford
Christine Howe
Christine Howe University of Cambridge
Michael Bamberg
Michael Bamberg Clark University
Larry Nucci
Larry Nucci University of California, Berkeley
Neil Mercer
Neil Mercer University of Cambridge
James V. Wertsch
James V. Wertsch Washington University in St. Louis
Kathy Sylva
Kathy Sylva University of Oxford
Elliot Turiel
Elliot Turiel University of California, Berkeley
Jane Hurry
Jane Hurry University College London
Deanna Kuhn
Deanna Kuhn Columbia University

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