Cathy Kessel

Kessel received her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder, specializing in mathematical logic, and taught for three years after earning her Ph.D. She taught for a total of 13 years as a graduate and postgraduate until the 1990s when she made the switch to research in education.{{Cite web|url=https://mathedck.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/kessel-ume-trends-article-1990.pdf|title=Why I Quit My Job|last=Kessel|first=Cathy|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} She began auditing courses and working on research projects at the School of Education at the University of California at Berkeley. This led to a career that included editing reports, books, articles, and curriculum and standards documents. She was the president of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2007 to 2009 and worked as a mathematics education consultant through 2015 and again after she left Illustrative Mathematics in 2017.

Kessel has participated in multiple projects pertaining to mathematics education, including the following.{{Cite news|url=https://mathedck.wordpress.com/about-this-blogger/|title=About this blogger|date=2010-03-09|newspaper=Mathematics and Education|language=en-US|access-date=2016-11-05}}

• Editor and indexer, Liping Ma, Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics, first edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1999; anniversary edition, Routledge, 2010
• Additional writer, Principles and Standards of School Mathematics, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2000
• Editor, Mathematical Education of Teachers, Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, 2001
• Consultant, Research for Better Schools guide to TIMSS public release videos, 2005
• Writer, Learning Across Boundaries: U.S.–Japan Collaboration in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2007{{Cite web|url=http://www.lessonresearch.net/LOB1.pdf|title=Learning Across Boundaries PDF|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317174849/http://lessonresearch.net/LOB1.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-17|url-status=dead}}
• Editor, Critical Issues in Mathematics Education workshop booklet, Teaching Teachers Mathematics: Research, Ideas, Projects, Evaluation, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 2009
• Editor, Mathematical Education of Teachers II, Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences, 2012{{Cite web|url=http://www.cbmsweb.org/MET2/index.htm|title=MET2|website=www.cbmsweb.org|access-date=2016-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026201529/http://www.cbmsweb.org/MET2/index.htm|archive-date=2016-10-26|url-status=dead}}
• Writer, Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States: Summary of a Workshop, 2015, National Academy of Sciences{{Cite book|last=Medicine|first=National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and|date=2015-10-07|title=Mathematics Curriculum, Teacher Professionalism, and Supporting Policies in Korea and the United States: Summary of a Workshop|url=https://www.nap.edu/catalog/21753/mathematics-curriculum-teacher-professionalism-and-supporting-policies-in-korea-and-the-united-states|doi=10.17226/21753|isbn=978-0-309-37436-1}}

• M. Linn and C. Kessel. (2001). Test bias. In Judith Worrell (editor in chief), Encyclopedia of women and gender (pp. 1129–1140). Academic Press.
• M. Linn and C. Kessel. (2002). Gender differences in cognition and educational performance. In Lynn Nadel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cognitive science (pp. 261–267). New York: Macmillan.
• M. Linn and C. Kessel. (2005). Gender and assessment. In Carol Goodheart & Judith Worell (Eds.), Handbook of girls’ and women’s psychological health: Gender and well-being across the life span. New York: Oxford University Press.
• C. Kessel. (2006). Perceptions and research: Mathematics, gender, and the SAT. Focus, 26(9), 14–15.
• C. Kessel. (2007). Op ed. Bay Area Businesswoman News, February.
• Many co-authors. (2007). Women mathematicians in the academic ranks: A call to action. Report of the 2006 BIRS workshop on women and mathematics.{{Cite web|url=http://www.birs.ca/workshops/2006/06w5504/report06w5504.pdf|title=Women Mathematicians in the Academic Ranks: A Call to Action|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}
• C. Kessel and D. Nelson. (2011). Statistical Trends in Women’s Participation in Science: Commentary on Valla and Ceci (2011). Perspectives on Psychological Science, 6(2), 147–149.
• C. Kessel. (2011). Women. Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Society, edited by Sarah Greenwald and Jill Thompson. Croton-on-Hudson, NY: Golson Media.
• C. Kessel. (2014). Understanding underrepresentation: Women in mathematics and other fields. Mathematical Intelligencer, 0.1007/s00283-013-9441-1. Online 20 March. In print, Volume 36, Issue 4 (2014), 10–18.{{Cite journal|last=Kessel|first=Cathy|date=2014-03-20|title=Understanding Underrepresentation: Women in Mathematics and Other Fields|url=https://works.bepress.com/cathy_kessel/8/|journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer|language=en|volume=36|issue=4|pages=10–18|doi=10.1007/s00283-013-9441-1|s2cid=123713550|issn=0343-6993}}
• C. Kessel. (2015). Women in mathematics: Change, inertia, stratification, segregation. In Willie Pearson Jr., Lisa M. Frehill, and Connie L. McNeely (editors), Advancing Women in Science: An International Perspective (pp. 171–186, 198–199). Springer International Publishing Switzerland.{{Cite web|url=https://works.bepress.com/cathy_kessel/|title=SelectedWorks - Cathy Kessel|last=Press|first=Berkeley Electronic|website=works.bepress.com|access-date=2016-11-05}}

• A. Arcavi, C. Kessel, L. Meira, and J. Smith. (1998). Teaching mathematical problem solving: A microanalysis of an emergent classroom community. Alan Schoenfeld, Ed Dubinsky, and James Kaput (Eds.), Research in Collegiate Mathematics Education III (pp. 1–70). Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society.
• C. Kessel. (1999). Testing: . . . 2, 3, 4, . . . , 11, 12, 12+; G–, G+: CAP, CAT, CTBS, . . . , ITBS, . . . ; ACT, SAT; GRE, LSAT, MCAT; NTE. MER Newsletter 11(3), 8–11.{{Cite web|url=http://math.arizona.edu/~ime/2007-08/1013_testing.Kessel.pdf|title=Testing...|last=Kessel|first=Cathy|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}
• C. Kessel. (2001). What’s in a name? MER Newsletter 13(3), 4–5, 10–11.
• M. Chiu, C. Kessel, J. Moschkovich, and A. Muñoz-Nuñez. (2001). Learning to graph linear functions: A case study of conceptual change. Cognition and Instruction, 19(2), 215–251.{{Cite journal|last1=Chiu|last2=Kessel|first2=Cathy|last3=Moschkovich|first3=Judit|last4=Muñoz-Nuñez|first4=Agustin|date=2001-01-01|title=Learning to Graph Linear Functions: A Case Study of Conceptual Change|jstor=3233817|journal=Cognition and Instruction|volume=19|issue=2|pages=215–252|doi=10.1207/S1532690XCI1902_03|s2cid=16064683}}
• C. Kessel. (2013). A mathematical perspective on educational research. In Y. Li & J. N. Moschkovich (Eds.), Mathematical proficiency and beliefs in learning and teaching (pp. 237–256). Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

• Association for Women in Mathematics twenty-seventh annual Louise Hay Award (January 2017){{Cite web|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/hay-award/hay-award-2017|title=Louise Hay Award-2017 Winner:Cathy Kessel|website=awm-math.org|access-date=2021-01-13}}

In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.{{cite web|title=2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2018-awm-fellows|website=awm-math.org|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|accessdate=9 January 2021}}

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