Publications

Pratt, D., Ainley, J., Kent, P., Levinson, R., Yogui, C., and Kapadia, R. (2009, July). Informal inferential reasoning as a contextualised risk-based enterprise. Presentation at the Sixth International Research Forum on Statistical Reasoning, Thinking, and Literacy. Brisbane: University of Queensland. [This paper was an early version of the paper for Mathematical Thinking and Learning - see below]

Levinson, R. and Rodd, M. (2009). Pre-service teachers’ conceptions of risk: a pilot study. Revista de Estudos Universitários, 35(2): 85 – 99. [download PDF from journal website]

Kapadia, R., Kent, P., Pratt, D., Levinson, R., and Yogui, C. (2010, April). Promoting a cross-curricular pedagogy of risk in mathematics and science classrooms. In Joubert, M. and Andrews, P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh British Congress for Mathematics Education (Manchester, UK), pages 121 - 128. Published by the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics as Informal Proceedings, Volume 30(1). TURS-paper-for-BCME-2010-conference.pdf . Also published 'Promoting a cross-curricular pedagogy of risk' in Mathematics Teaching 219, pp 44-48, September 2010 [journal link - closed access].

Kent, P., Pratt, D., Levinson, R., Yogui, C., and Kapadia, R. (2010, July). Teaching uncertainty and risk in mathematics and science. In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. [download PDF from IASE]

Levinson, R., Kent,P., Pratt, D., Kapadia, R., and Yogui, C. (2010, July). Developing a pedagogy of risk in socio-scientific issues. Proceedings of the 8th Conference of European Researchers in Didactics of Biology (ERIDOB).

Pratt, D., and Yogui, C. (2010, August). A constructionist approach to a contested area of knowledge. Presented at the Constructionism 2010 conference, Paris, August 2010. Pratt-Yogui-Constructionist-Approach-to-Contested-Knowledge-2010.pdf

Levinson, R., Pratt, D., Kent, P., Kapadia, R., & Yogui, C. (2010, December). Towards personal models of risk: what lessons from Deborah's Dilemma. Second invitational workshop on Genomics Education: ‘Decision making on genomics-related issues’ (December 2010, Utrecht).

Pratt, D., Levinson, R., and Kent, P. (2011, January). Constructing a principled approach to the teaching of risk in mathematics and science. London Mathematics Education Research Seminar Series (LMERSS) at King's College London, 12 January. TURS-seminar-for-LMERSS-2011-01-12.pdf

Pratt, D., Levinson, R., Kent, P., and Yogui, C.  (2011, February). Risk-based decision-making by mathematics and science teachers. Presented at CERME-7 (Seventh Congress of the European Society for Research in Mathematics Education) - Working Group 5, Rzeszów, Poland. TURS-paper-for-CERME7-conference.pdf

Levinson, R., Kent,P., Pratt, D., Kapadia, R., and Yogui, C. (2011). Developing a pedagogy of risk in socio-scientific issues. Journal of Biological Education 45(3), 136-142. [journal link - closed access]

Pratt, D., Ainley, J., Kent, P., Levinson, R., Yogui, C., and Kapadia, R. (2011). Role of context in risk-based reasoning.  Mathematical Thinking and Learning 13(4), 322-345. [journal link - closed access]