Academic Interests
Jóhann Örn Sigurjónsson is a postdoctoral fellow within the LISA Nordic project. He was previously a QUINT PhD fellow within the same project. His academic interests involve mathematics education, research on teaching quality and gifted education. His most recent work is on cognitive activation in Icelandic and Nordic mathematics classrooms, building primarily on classroom video data, but also in connection to the use of student surveys.
Background
2023, PhD in Educational Science, University of Iceland 2019, BS in Computer Science, University of Iceland
2017 MEd in Mathematics Education, University of Iceland
2014 BEd in Mathematics Teacher Education, University of Iceland
Postdoctoral project
Jóhann Örn Sigurjónsson's aim in his postdoc project is to draw links between the quality of teacher's instructional explanations and emphasis on students' intellectual work, building on PLATO elements Intellectual Challenge and Representation of Content.
Publications
Jóhann Örn Sigurjónsson, Anna Kristín Sigurðardóttir, Berglind Gísladóttir, Jorryt van Bommel (2022). "Connecting Student Perceptions and Classroom Observations as Measures of Cognitive Activation", in Nordic Studies in Education 42 (4), 328-346, https://doi.org/10.23865/nse.v42.3636.
Jóhann Örn Sigurjónsson and Berglind Gísladóttir (2020). Vitsmunalega áskorun í stærðfræðikennslu á unglingastigi /Intellectual challenge in mathematics teaching in lower secondary schools. Tímarit um uppeldi og menntun /Icelandic Journal of Education, 29(2), 149–171. https://doi.org/10.24270/tuuom.2020.29.8.
Jóhann Örn Sigurjónsson and Jónína Vala Kristinsdóttir. (2018). Upprifjunaráfangar framhaldsskóla í stærðfræði: Skapandi og krefjandi vinna eða stagl? Tímarit um uppeldi og menntun, 27(1), 65-86. https://doi.org/10.24270/tuuom.2018.27.4