Jere Confrey

The Design & Pitch Challenges in STEM: A Theoretical Framework for Centering Mathematics Learning in Entrepreneurial Pitch Competitions

Belcher, M., Confrey, J., Krupa, E. E., & Borden, M. L. (2025, May 25). Education Sciences, Vol. 15.

Algorithms, spreadsheets and functions: exploring middle graders’ functional reasoning during a STEM entrepreneurial pitch competition

Belcher, M., Confrey, J., & Krupa, E. (2024, November 25). International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, Vol. 11.

Examining instructional change at scale using data from diagnostic assessments built on learning trajectories

Confrey, J., & Shah, M. (2021, April 16). ZDM.

Validation of a Learning Trajectory-Based Diagnostic Mathematics Assessment System as a Trading Zone

Confrey, J., Shah, M., & Toutkoushian, E. (2021, August 26). Frontiers in Education.

Working at scale to initiate ongoing validation of learning trajectory-based classroom assessments for middle grade mathematics

Confrey, J., Toutkoushian, E., & Shah, M. (2020, September 21). The Journal of Mathematical Behavior.

A Validation Argument From Soup to Nuts: Assessing Progress on Learning Trajectories for Middle-School Mathematics

Confrey, J., Toutkoushian, E., & Shah, M. (2019, January 2). Applied Measurement in Education.

The concept of an agile curriculum as applied to a middle school mathematics digital learning system (DLS)

Confrey, J., Maloney, A. P., Belcher, M., McGowan, W., Hennessey, M., & Shah, M. (2018, January 1). International Journal of Educational Research.

Scaffolding learner-centered curricular coherence using learning maps and diagnostic assessments designed around mathematics learning trajectories

Confrey, J., Gianopulos, G., McGowan, W., Shah, M., & Belcher, M. (2017, May 26). ZDM.

Topic Study Group No. 36: Task Design, Analysis and Learning Environments Programme Summary

In Proceedings of the 13th International Congress on Mathematical Education (pp. 549–553).

Untangling the “Messy Middle” in Learning Trajectories

Confrey, J., Maloney, A., & Gianopulos, G. (2017, October 2). Measurement Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives.

A design research study of a curriculum and diagnostic assessment system for a learning trajectory on equipartitioning

ZDM, 47(6), 919–932.

Challenges in Modeling and Measuring Learning Trajectories

Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 13(2), 100–105.

Design research with a focus on learning processes: an overview on achievements and challenges

ZDM, 47(6), 877–891.

Effects of a reform high school mathematics curriculum on student achievement: whom does it benefit?

Journal of Curriculum Studies, 49(2), 191–215.

Engineering [for] Effectiveness in Mathematics Education: Intervention at the Instructional Core in an Era of Common Core Standards

Confrey, J., & Maloney, A. (2015, January 1).

Equipartitioning, a foundation for rational number reasoning elucidation of a learning trajectory

Learning Over Time: Learning Trajectories in Marhematics Education, 61–96.

Exploring the relationship between learning trajectories and curriculum a content analysis of rational number reasoning in connected mathematics and UCSMP transition mathematics

Learning Over Time: Learning Trajectories in Marhematics Education, 161–185.

Learning over time: Learning trajectories in mathematics education

Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Learning over time: learning trajectories in mathematics education

Charlotte, NC:Information Age Publishing, Inc.

Learning trajectories going forward a foundation for coherence in the instructional core conclusion

Learning Over Time: Learning Trajectories in Marhematics Education, 243–255.

Learning trajectories in mathematics introduction

Learning Over Time: Learning Trajectories in Marhematics Education, XI-.

Learning trajectories: a framework for connecting standards with curriculum

ZDM, 46(5), 719–733.

Linking standards and learning trajectories boundary objects and representations

Learning Over Time: Learning Trajectories in Marhematics Education, 125–160.

Design Decisions in Developing Learning Trajectories–Based Assessments in Mathematics: A Case Study

Penuel, W. R., Confrey, J., Maloney, A., & Rupp, A. A. (2013, November 23). Journal of the Learning Sciences.

Learning trajectories in teacher education: Supporting teachers’ understandings of students’ mathematical thinking

The Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 32(2), 103–121.

Teachers’ use of their mathematical knowledge for teaching in learning a mathematics learning trajectory

Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 17(2), 149–175.

Learning Trajectory Based Instruction

Sztajn, P., Confrey, J., Wilson, P. H., & Edgington, C. (2012, June 1). Educational Researcher, Vol. 41, pp. 147–156.

Strengthening research by designing for coherence and connections to practice

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 41(3), 216–235.

Equipartitioning/splitting as a foundation of rational number reasoning using learning trajectories

Pme 33: proceedings of the 33rd conference of the international group for the psychology of mathematics education, vol 2, 2, 345–352.

Pre-service elementary teachers' utilization of an equipartitioning learning trajectory to build models of student thinking

Pme 33: proceedings of the 33rd conference of the international group for the psychology of mathematics education, vol 4, 4, 129–136.

Research in mathematics education: Multiple methods for multiple uses

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 40(3), 216–240.

Justifying Alternative Models in Learning Astronomy: A study of K–8 science teachers’ understanding of frames of reference

International Journal of Science Education, 32(1), 1–29.

Situating research on curricular change

From conceptual change to transformative modeling: A case study of an elementary teacher in learning astronomy

Science Education, 91(6), 948–966.

Undertaking data analysis of student outcomes as professional development for teachers

Zentralblatt Für Didaktik Der Mathematik, 36(1), 32–40.