Thesis submitted for the MS Educational Psychology degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.
Education Publications and Presentations
Kumar, S., & Miller, K. (May, 2005). Let SMIL be your umbrella: Software tools for transcribing, coding, and presenting digital video in behavioral research. Behavior Research Methods, 37(2), pp. 359-367. Download draft pdf More…
Kumar, S. & Correa, C. (2004, April 14). Out of order: Extracting patterns from sequences of lesson codes. In K.F. Miller (Chair), Making Lesson Structure Visible: Alternative Analysis Techniques Applied to a Large International Mathematics Data Set. Paper presented at the annual meeting of American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Correa, C. & Kumar, S. (2004, April 14). Charting the course: Navigating lesson data through visual representations. In K.F. Miller (Chair), Making Lesson Structure Visible: Alternative Analysis Techniques Applied to a Large International Mathematics Data Set. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
Kumar, S. (2003). “I feel sad when you teach emotional intelligence”: A Critical View of Formal Emotional Learning Programmes in Schools. Open Schooling Association of the Commonwealth (OSAC) Journal of Open Schooling (2)2.
Kumar, S., Correa, C. & Sims, L.M. (2003, April 21). First and Foremost: Examining lesson introductions by Chinese and American elementary school mathematics teachers. In K. F. Miller (Chair), Making Teaching Public: Studying Teacher Thinking Using Video Techniques. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago. More…
Sims, L. M., & Kumar, S. (2002, April 4). Working with digital video: A guide for the perplexed. In K. F. Miller (Chair), Digital video records of classroom mathematics: How to make them and what we can learn from them. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA. More…
Ahuja, R., Dangwal, R., Kumar, S. (1999, August 13). Learning from kiosks. Paper presented at the NIIT CRCS F13 Conference at Dwarka, India. [Learning-From-Kiosks.pdf]
May 1996 - June 1998, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi, India
Co-authored (with Jaya Narasimhan) and illustrated a series of three Mathematics textbooks for middle school published by a division of McGraw Hill. (ISBN 0-07-463294-9, 0-07-463295-7, 0-07-463297-3). The series has been acclaimed for its use of cartoons and puzzles.