Contact
Rannóg
Department of Arts, Mathematics, PE and Early Childhood
Role
Assistant lecturer
Qualifications
M.A.
B.Ed
Teaching
Programme | Module Code | Module Name | Role |
B.Ed | ED8304 | Mathematics | Module co-ordinator and lecturer |
B.Ed | ED8404 | Teacher as a knowledgeable professional: Mathematics | Lecturer |
PME | PM9102 | Maths methods/Subject matter knowledge for primary mathematics | Module co-ordinator and lecturer |
MES in Primary Mathematics Education | MA9102 | Contemporary issues in the teaching and learning of primary mathematics | Module co-ordinator and lecturer |
MES in Primary Mathematics Education | MA9106 | Leadership in primary mathematics education | Module co-ordinator and lecturer |
ORCID iD
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6328-283X
Publications and other outputs
Book Chapters
Leavy, A., & Murphy, B. (2021). Children’s mathematical lives and the influence of gender: The importance of cultivating positive attitudes towards mathematics. In A. Leavy & M. Nohilly (Eds.), Perspectives on Childhood (pp. 298-326). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal Articles
Leavy, A., Hourigan, M., Murphy, B., & Yilmaz, N. (2019). Malleable or fixed: Exploring pre-service primary teachers’ attitudes towards statistics. Statistics Education Research Journal, 52(3), 427-451. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739X.2019.1688405
Conference Contributions
Murphy, B., Leavy, A., & Erbe-Healy, A. (2023, March 30-April 1). Exploring factors influencing mathematics outcomes using a bio-ecological framework: A focus on the relationships between individual characteristics and mathematics attainment of children in multi-grade settings in primary education. [Paper presentation]. Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Conference 2023, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Murphy, B. (2022, May 25). Do children in multi-grade classes in small schools do well in mathematics? [Paper presentation]. Growing Up in Ireland National Longitudinal Study of Children 14th Annual Research Conference, online.
Murphy, B., Leavy, A., & Erbe-Healy, A. (2021, November 25). An exploration of the mathematics outcomes of 9-year-old children in multigrade classrooms in small schools . [Paper presentation]. Growing Up in Ireland National Longitudinal Study of Children 13th Annual Research Conference, online.
Murphy, B. & Gurhy, A.M. (2020, Sept 3-4). Optimising learning for all: Examining dispositions and mathematics achievement among young learners [Paper presentation]. Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Conference 2020, online.
Gurhy, A.M. & Murphy B. (2020, January 16). Placing the child at the centre of quality in mathematics education. [Paper presentation]. Teaching for Holistic, Relational and Inclusive Early Childhood Education (THRIECE) Conference, Carlow, Ireland.
Murphy, B., & Leavy, A. (2019). The influence of home factors on mathematics outcomes in multigrade classes. [Peer reviewed conference paper]. In L. Harbison & A. Twohill (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Research in Mathematics Education (MEI 7), Dublin (pp. 187-194). http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3474137
Murphy, B. (2018, September 3-4). The influence of multigrade teaching on student’s academic achievements. [Paper presentation]. Emerging Researchers’ Conference, European Conference of Educational Research (EERA), Bolzano, Italy.
Murphy, B. & Leavy, A. (2018, April 5-7). Understanding academic achievement in multigrade classrooms: Evidence from the child cohort of ‘Growing Up in Ireland’. [Paper presentation]. Educational Studies Association of Ireland (ESAI) Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
Murphy, B. & Leavy, A. (2017, April 20-22). Situating multigrade education within the educational landscape; a preliminary path through the literature’. [Paper presentation]. Educational Studies Association of Ireland Conference, Cork, Ireland.
Research/Professional Interests
Mathematics education, multigrade education
Membership
ESAI
NCTM