MARS Team:
Sandra Wilcox

Email address wilcoxs@pilot.msu.edu
Telephone 517 355 1741
Fax 517 353 6393
Postal address
Professor Sandra K Wilcox
Erickson Hall, Room 509B
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824

Sandra Wilcox leads work on assessment, school-based inquiry and qualitative research at Michigan State, where she is a leading member of the teacher education group. The BA team at Michigan State, led by Wilcox, carried major responsibility for the development of tasks at the middle grades.

Her research focuses on mathematics education, particularly the preparation of elementary teachers, the continuing professional development of middle school teachers, and the links among assessment, curriculum, teaching, and learning. She currently directs, with science educator James J. Gallagher, an Eisenhower-funded project to work with 60 leaders in science and mathematics education in Michigan, who in turn will organize and facilitate a program of professional development through assessment in their local settings. These leaders will use science teaching and assessment resources and mathematics cases developed in the NSF-funded project, Using Assessment in the Service of Teaching and Learning in Middle School Science and Mathematics that Wilcox and Gallagher co-directed from 1992-96.

For the past eight years, Wilcox has collaborated with mathematics teachers in three urban Professional Development Schools, studying how standards-based curriculum and performance assessment contribute to teacher learning and teacher change.

Dr. Wilcox is also interested in qualitative methods instruction and in collaborative studies of mathematics education reform with regard to issues of equity and access and the multiple context within which reform exists.

Sandra Wilcox is the Principal Investigator and Director of MARS, and leads its Michigan State center. She has particular responsibility for relations with client states and districts.

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