Rachael Kenney
Associate Professor
Mathematics Education,
Curriculum and Instruction
Email:
rhkenney@purdue.edu
Phone:
(765) 496-6053
Address:
Department of Mathematics
Purdue University
150 N. University Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2098 MATH 702
Links:
Personal WebsiteAbout
Education
- Ph.D. — Mathematics Education, North Carolina State University (2008)
- M.S. — Applied Mathematics, University of Dayton (2000)
- B.S. — Mathematics, University of Dayton (1999)
Career Experience
- 2014 – present
Associate Professor of Mathematics Education
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN - 2008 – 2014
Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN - 2004 – 2008
Research Assistant
Project Bright IDEA II
Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, NC - 2000 – 2008
Instructor of Mathematics
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC - 2000
Teaching Internship
Carroll High School, Dayton, OH
Awards & Honors
- Discovery Learning Research Center (DLRC) 2010 Faculty Research Fellowship.
- Service, Teaching, and Research, (STaR) for Early Career Mathematics Educators Fellowship. 2010.
- Teaching Award: Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching by an Assistant Professor, College of Science, Purdue University, 2012.
- Spira Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, 2015.
- Teaching Academy Fellow, Purdue University, 2016.
- Curriculum and Instruction Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award, Purdue University, 2016.
- Outstanding Service Award, College of Education, Purdue University, 2022.
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
- National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
- Indiana Council for Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM), Board Member
- North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA)
- Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE)
- Hoosier Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (HAMTE)
- Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM), Teaching Committee
Research & Publications
- Writing and reflection in the learning of mathematics
- The academic language of mathematics
- Students’ and teachers’ anticipatory and reflective practices in learning and teaching mathematics
Selected Publications
- Kenney, R. H., & Reeder, E. J. (2024). Using writing prompts to unpack students’ understanding of absolute value equations. Indiana Mathematics Teacher, 1, 4-8.
- Maeda, Y., Kenney, R.H., & Lolkus, M. (2023). Meta-Aggregation: Methodological Guidance and Lessons Learned on an Approach to Qualitative Synthesis for Mathematics Education Research. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 54(5), 342-350.
- Kenney, R.H., (*G) Lolkus, M., & *Maeda, Y. (2023). Formative Assessment in Secondary Mathematics: Moving Theory to Recommendations for Evidence-Based Practice. Mathematics Teacher Educator, 11(2): 76-92. https://doi.org/10.5951/MTE.2022.0019
- Maeda, Y., Caskurlu, S., Kenney, R.H., Kozan, K., & Richardson, J. (2022). Moving qualitative synthesis research forward in education. Educational Research Review, 35, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2021.100424
- Kenney, R.H., (G)An, T., (G)Kim, S., Uhan, N., Yi, J., & (U)Shamsul, A. (2020). Linear programming models: Identifying common errors in engineering students’ work with complex word problems. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 18. 635-655. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10763-019-09980-5
- Roegman, R., (G)Johns, G., Kenney, R., & Maeda, Y. (2019). When data-driven decision-making becomes data driven test-taking: A case study of a mid-western high school. Educational Policy. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904818823744
- Kenney, R.H. & de Oliveira, L. (2015). A framework for connecting natural language and symbol sense in mathematical word problems for English language learners. Teaching for Excellence and Equity in Mathematics, 6(1), 7-16.
Courses Typically Taught
- EDCI 42600 – Teaching of Secondary Mathematics Methods
- EDCI 49800 — Supervised Teaching in Mathematics Education
- EDCI 62000 — Developing as a Mathematics Education Researcher
- MA 10800 — Mathematics as a Profession and a Discipline
- MA 32500 – History of Mathematics
- MA 48400 — Seminar on Teaching College Algebra and Trigonometry