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GSE Profiles
Staff Contact:
Maryl Gearhart
Associate Adjunct Professor
Cognition and Development
Office: 4413 Tolman Hall
Phone: (510) 643 4082
Email: gearhart@berkeley.edu
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Maryl Gearhart's research focuses on professional development strategies to support teachers' interpretation of student thinking in mathematics and science. As a developmental psychologist and preservice elementary educator, she focuses most of her research on K-6 education. She is currently investigating the role of a reflective assessment portfolio in science teachers' developing expertise with classroom assessment, and has previously investigated other professional development strategies, including 'looking at student work' and analyses of video examples of children's mathematical problem solving. Recent publications include, "Developing expertise with classroom assessment: Learning to interpret student work" (with colleagues) in Educational Assessment; "When teachers know what students know: Integrating assessment in elementary mathematics" in Theory Into Practice (with G. B. Saxe); "Looking at student work for teacher learning, teacher community, and school reform" in Phi Delta Kappan (with J. W. Little and others).
Ph.D., City University of New York Graduate Center, Developmental Psychology
M.A., New York University, Remedial Reading/Educational Psychology
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[selected]1987-1998 Project Director, Center for the Study of Evaluation, University of California, Los Angeles
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Gearhart teaches a master's level course in the development of mathematical thinking in the Developmental Teacher Education program, an undergraduate course on psychological and sociocultural foundations of elementary education, and doctoral level courses in assessment and professional development.
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Articles (Refereed Journals, Proceeding)Alonzo, A., & Gearhart, M. (2006). Considering learning progressions from a classroom assessment perspective. Measurement, 14, 99-104Gearhart, M., Nagashima, S., Clark, S., Schwab, C., Vendlinski, T., Osmundson, E., Herman, J. (2006). Developing expertise with classroom assessment in K-12 science: Learning to interpret student work. Interim findings from a two-year study. Educational Assessment, 11, 237-263.
Gearhart, M., & Saxe, G. B. (2004). When teachers know what students know: Integrating assessment in elementary mathematics. Theory Into Practice, 43, 304-313, 322.
Little, J. W., Gearhart, M., Curry, M., & Kafka, J. (2003). 'Looking at student work' for teacher learning, teacher community, and school reform. Phi Delta Kappan, 185-192.
Saxe, G. B., Gearhart, M., & Nasir, N. (2001). Enhancing students' understanding of mathematics: A study of three contrasting approaches to professional support. Journal for Research in Teacher Education, 4, 55-79.
Gearhart, M., Saxe, G. B., Fall, R., Schlackman, J., Nasir, N., Ching, C. C., Bennett, T. R., Rhine, S., & Sloan, T. (1999). Opportunities to learn fractions in elementary mathematics classrooms. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 30, 286-315.
Saxe, G. B., Gearhart, M., & Franke, M. (1999). Teachers' shifting assessment practices in the context of educational reform in mathematics. Teaching and Teacher Education, 15, 85-105.
Saxe, G. B., & Gearhart, M., & Seltzer, M. (1999). Relations between classroom practices and student learning in the domain of fractions. Cognition and Instruction, 17(1), 1-24.
Gearhart, M., & Herman, J. L. (1998). Portfolio assessment: Whose work is it? Issues in the use of classroom assignments for accountability. Educational Assessment, 5, 41-56.
Gearhart, M., & Wolf, S. A. (1997). Issues in portfolio assessment: Assessing writing processes from their products. Educational Assessment, 4, 265-296.
Stipek, D. J., Gearhart, M., & Denham, W. (1997, April). Mathematics instruction: What works? Thrust for Educational Leadership, 22-25.
Wolf, S. A., & Gearhart, M. (1997). New writing assessments: The challenge of changing teachers' beliefs about their students as writers. Theory into Practice, 36, 220-230.
Gearhart, M., Herman, J. L., Novak, J. R., & Wolf, S. A. (1995). Toward the instructional utility of large-scale writing assessments: Validation of a new narrative rubric. Assessing Writing, 2, 207-242.
Gearhart, M., & Wolf, S. A. (1994). Engaging teachers in assessment of their students' writing: The role of subject matter knowledge. Assessing Writing, 1, 67-90.
Herman, J. L., Gearhart, M., & Baker, E. L. (1993). Assessing writing portfolios: Issues in the validity and meaning of scores. Educational Assessment, 1(3), 201-224.
Gearhart, M., & Newman, D. (1980). Learning to draw a picture: The social context of an individual production. Discourse Processes, 3, 169-184.
Book ChaptersGearhart, M. (2002). Classroom writing assessment. In B. Guzzetti (Ed.), Literacy in America: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC.Herman, J. L., Gearhart, M., & Aschbacher, P. (1996). Portfolios for classroom assessment: Design and implementation issues. In R. C. Calfee & P. Perfumo (Eds.), Writing portfolios in the classroom: Policy and practice, promise and peril (pp. 27-59). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Gearhart, M., Herman, J. L., Baker, E. L., Novak, J. R., Whittaker, A. K. (1994). A new mirror for the classroom: A technology-based tool for documenting the impact of technology on instruction (pp. 173-197). In E. L. Baker and H. O'Neill (Eds.), Technology assessment. Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum.
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Papers[selected]Gearhart, M., & Little, J. W. (2008, March). Looking at student work: Opportunities afforded for teacher learning. Presentation at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York.
Gearhart, M. et al. (2006). Assessment for Learning in Science : Teachers Learning to Interpret Student Work. Presentation at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco.
Gearhart, M. (2005, April). Developing expertise with classroom assessment in K-12 science. Presentation at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal.
Gearhart, M. (2005, September). Developing expertise with interpretation of student work in science. Invited presentation at the 2005 Annual CRESST Conference, UCLA.
Gearhart, M., Nagashima, S., Pfotenhauer, J., & Schwab, C. (2004, September). Assessment portfolios as support for and evidence of teacher learning. Invited session at the 2004 Annual CRESST Conference, UCLA.
Gearhart, M., McNamara, J., Collett, J., & Minkel, J. (2003, April). Teachers' frameworks for assessing student understanding of area models and number line representations of fractions. Presentation at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego.
Gearhart, M. (2002, April). Teacher learning from 'looking at student work.' Presentation at the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans.
Gearhart, M. (2000, April). Listening to children: Children's criteria for evaluating their work in mathematics. Presentation at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans.
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2007-present Senior Research Associate, Learning Mathematics through Representations (LMR), University of California, Berkeley.2002-2007 Member, Center for Assessment and Evaluation of Student Learning (CAESL) (NSF CLT)
2002-2006 Member, Diversity in Mathematics Education (DiME) funded by the National Science Foundation
2000-2002 Principal Investigator, "Students' Roles in Assessment Practices." $34,000, Spencer Foundation Small Grants Program.
1999-2002 Co-Principal Investigator (with Judith Warren Little), "Reviewing Student Work: A Cross-Project Study." $220,000, Wallace Readers Digest Fund.
1998 Principal Investigator. "Integrating Mathematics Assessment: A Proposal to Develop Assessments of Mathematical Literacy." $15,000, University of California, Office of the President.
1992-98 Principal Investigator (with Co-PIs Geoffrey Saxe, Deborah Stipek, and Susie Hakansson). "Portfolios in Practice: Integrating Assessment and Instruction in Elementary Mathematics." $1,035,369, National Science Foundation MDR-9154512
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Professional and Government Committees2002- Member, Technical Advisory Committee, Testing and Assessment Division, California Department of Education1991-95 Member, National Design Experiments Consortium, Center for Children and Technology
1992-94 Member, Portfolio Task Force, California Assessment Program
Editorial and Review Positions2006 Co-chair, Division C, Section 2 (mathematics), AERA 2003-04 Reviewer, Institute for Education Sciences, Teacher Quality Research Grants1981 - present: Guest Reviewer: American Education Research Journal; Assessing Writing; Developmental Psychology; Developmental Science; Division C and K AERA conference proposals; Educational Assessment; Educational Evaluation & Policy Analysis; Educational Researcher; Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology; Merrill-Palmer Quarterly; OERI Field Initiated Grants; Sociology in Education; Teaching & Teacher Education; Technical Reports for ETS Center for Performance Assessment
1998-99 Associate Editor, Educational Assessment
University and GSE Service2007-2008 Committee on Professional Education Programs2007-2008 Fellowships Committee
2007-2008 Undergraduate Minor Committee
2004-2007 Academic Review Committee (Chair, 2005-2007)
2005-2006 Policy Committee (ex officio)
2003-2005 Teacher Education Committee (ad hoc) (renamed Committee for Programs in Professional Preparation)
2003-2004 Undergraduate Minor Committee
2000-2002 Coordinator, GSE Evaluation Unit
1997-1999 Evaluator for the GSE Spencer Doctoral Research Training Grant
1997-1998 Policy Committee
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American Educational Research Association
Association of Science Teacher Educators
California Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators
California Mathematics Council
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
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Assessment and Educational Measurement
Cognitive Development
Mathematics Education
Professional Development for Educators
Science Education
Teacher Development
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