Mairead Hourigan

Mairead Hourigan

University of Limerick

H-index: 18

Europe-Ireland

About Mairead Hourigan

Mairead Hourigan, With an exceptional h-index of 18 and a recent h-index of 16 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of Limerick, specializes in the field of mathematics education, STEM education, teacher education, teacher characteristics.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Implementation of Lesson Study in the context of STEM education in a rural setting in Ireland: challenges and opportunities

Attending to task variables when engaging in group problem posing for elementary level mathematics

From bespectacled, bearded and bald to explosions, potions and vaccines: Irish children’s changing perceptions of scientists and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on those …

'I Have Seen STEM in Action and It's Quite Do-able!'The Impact of an Extended Professional Development Model on Teacher Efficacy in Primary STEM Education

Prospective primary teachers’ efficacy to teach mathematics: measuring efficacy beliefs and identifying the factors that influence them

Elementary teachers’ experience of engaging with teaching through problem solving using lesson study

Aisling Leavy Claire Carroll Edward Corry Michelle Fitzpatrick

Balancing competing demands: Enhancing the mathematical problem posing skills of prospective teachers through a mathematical letter writing initiative

Mairead Hourigan Information

University

Position

Lecturer in Mathematics Education, Mary Immaculate College

Citations(all)

1089

Citations(since 2020)

778

Cited By

569

hIndex(all)

18

hIndex(since 2020)

16

i10Index(all)

27

i10Index(since 2020)

25

Email

University Profile Page

University of Limerick

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Mairead Hourigan Skills & Research Interests

mathematics education

STEM education

teacher education

teacher characteristics

Top articles of Mairead Hourigan

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Implementation of Lesson Study in the context of STEM education in a rural setting in Ireland: challenges and opportunities

Bridget Flanagan

Mairéad Hourigan

Aisling Leavy

2024/3/19

Attending to task variables when engaging in group problem posing for elementary level mathematics

The Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Aisling Leavy

Mairéad Hourigan

2024/3/1

From bespectacled, bearded and bald to explosions, potions and vaccines: Irish children’s changing perceptions of scientists and the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on those …

International Journal of Science Education

Aisling Leavy

Mairéad Hourigan

Clodagh Cleary

2023/9/22

'I Have Seen STEM in Action and It's Quite Do-able!'The Impact of an Extended Professional Development Model on Teacher Efficacy in Primary STEM Education

International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education

Anne O’Dwyer

Mairéad Hourigan

Aisling M Leavy

Edward Corry

2023/6

Prospective primary teachers’ efficacy to teach mathematics: measuring efficacy beliefs and identifying the factors that influence them

Educational Studies in Mathematics

Aisling Leavy

Annette Hessen Bjerke

Mairéad Hourigan

2023/3

Elementary teachers’ experience of engaging with teaching through problem solving using lesson study

Mathematics Education Research Journal

Mairéad Hourigan

Aisling M Leavy

2023/12

Aisling Leavy Claire Carroll Edward Corry Michelle Fitzpatrick

Miriam Hamilton

Mairéad Hourigan

Gary LaCumbre

Rory McGann

Anne O’Dwyer

2022/6

Balancing competing demands: Enhancing the mathematical problem posing skills of prospective teachers through a mathematical letter writing initiative

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education

Aisling Leavy

Mairéad Hourigan

2022/6

Pre-service primary teachers’ mathematics teaching efficacy on entry to initial teacher education

Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Mathematics Teaching Efficacy on Entry to Initial Teacher Education

Mairéad Hourigan

Aisling M Leavy

2022/5/16

Integrated STEM–a step too far in primary education contexts?

Irish Educational Studies

M Hourigan

A O’Dwyer

AM Leavy

E Corry

2022/10/2

Developing multiplicative thinking and algebraic reasoning by solving a practical problem: The skyscraper growing pattern problem

Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom

Mairead Hourigan

Aisling Leavy

2022/1/1

The framework for posing elementary mathematics problems (F-PosE): Supporting teachers to evaluate and select problems for use in elementary mathematics

Educational studies in mathematics

Aisling Leavy

Mairéad Hourigan

2022/9

Methods and Strategies: Enhancing the STEM Framework

Science and Children

Jennifer A Manak

Enrique A Puig

2021/7/1

Malleable or fixed? Exploring pre-service primary teachers’ attitudes towards statistics

International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology

Aisling M Leavy

Mairead Hourigan

Breed Murphy

Nadide Yilmaz

2021/3/16

How Slow Is Your Parachute?

Science and Children

Aisling Leavy

Mairéad Hourigan

Anne O’Dwyer

Claire Carroll

Edward Corry

...

2021/7/1

The complexities of assuming the ‘teacher of teachers’ role during lesson study

Professional Development in Education

Mairead Hourigan

Aisling M Leavy

2021/3/3

Interrogating a measurement conjecture to introduce the concept of statistical association in upper elementary education

Teaching Statistics

Mairead Hourigan

Aisling Leavy

2020

Problem-solving preparations for the festive season

Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom

Mairead Hourigan

Aisling Leavy

2021/1/1

A case study exploring primary teachers’ experiences of a STEM education school-university partnership

Teachers and Teaching

Miriam Hamilton

Anne O’Dwyer

Aisling Leavy

Mairéad Hourigan

Claire Carroll

...

2021/5/19

Data modelling and informal inferential reasoning: Instances of early mathematical modelling

Exploring mathematical modeling with young learners

Aisling Leavy

Mairéad Hourigan

2021

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