Rate My Professor Karen Skilling

Skilling’s research specializations include student engagement and motivation in mathematics across cognitive, affective/emotional, and behavioural dimensions; teacher beliefs and practices; integrated STEM learning; and vignette methods. She leads Work Package 3 of the SEMPER Project funded by the Research Council of Norway, investigating teacher self-efficacy in mathematics across five schools. She previously led the Oxford-based ORRSEM Project on observing and reporting student engagement in secondary mathematics lessons. Her publications appear in leading journals such as Mathematics Education Research Journal and Research in Mathematics Education, including an oft-cited paper proposing a vignette framework co-authored with Professor Gabriel Stylianides. Key works include the 2022 book Cartoon vignettes for connecting mathematics education theory and practice and contributions to Becoming a Teacher (5th and 6th editions). She serves as editor for Teaching Education and Research in Mathematics Education, sat on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics for a four-year term, and is on the Motivation and Learning SIG of the Australian Association for Research in Education.