The Hans Freudenthal Recipient Professor Frederick Koon Shing LEUNG Visited AICFE
To further strengthen academic exchange with top scholars worldwide, Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education (AICFE) invited Professor Frederick Koon Shing LEUNG from The University of Hong Kong recently. Professor Leung is the first Asian scholar awarded the Hans Freudenthal Medal 2013, which is the highest international accolade in mathematics education. The Medal was given by the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) and has been given in each of the odd numbered year since 2003 to a distinguished scholar in recognition of his/her long time contribution in the research of a major cumulative program in mathematics education.
Professor Shengquan YU, the executive director of AICFE; Doctor Tian CHEN and Doctor Wei CUI in Learning Science Laboratory at AICFE; Professor Yiming CAO at Beijing Normal University attended an academic exchange meeting with Professor Leung. Professor YU introduced the Smart Learning Partner platform, which is educational public service platform designed and developed by AICFE to serve students in Beijing better, including online instruction, learning partner, and learning materials. Doctor Chen introduced Problem-Solving Ability Assessment (PSAA). The purpose of PSAA is to evaluate student’s ability to discover, analyze and solve problems by collecting and analyzing data through problem-solving process. Professor Leung was very interested in PSAA, he thought that assessing problem-solving skills and capability is a world-class and cutting-edge research topic, and PSAA is a promising research project. As long as PSAA was implemented in practice, it would be more advanced than PISA. Professor Leung would like to visit AICFE and communicate with young researchers at AICFE more frequently.
Further reading:
1. Professor Frederick Koon Shing LEUNG
Professor Leung’s degrees include a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977 and Master of Education in Testing, Measurement and Evaluation in 1984 from The University of Hong Kong, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics Education in 1992 from the University of London, Institute of Education. From 1977 to 1982, he taught secondary school mathematics. He obtained the position of Lecturer at The University of Hong Kong in 1982, then Senior Lecturer in 1992, and Professor in 2006. Frederick Leung was awarded a Senior Fulbright scholarship in 2003 for research at UCLA and, from the Faculty of Education at The University of Hong Kong, both the Outstanding Researcher award in 2006 and the Outstanding Researcher Student Supervisor award in 2008.
In citation that why the Hans Freudenthal Medal for 2013 went to Professor Leung, it was said that “His groundbreaking work, for which he is internationally known, is the utilization of the perspective of the Confucian Heritage Culture to explain the superior mathematics achievement of East Asian students in international studies”, and “Frederick Leung’s work has opened up a new dimension of looking at differences in mathematics achievement and classroom practices from the perspective of culture. His outstanding achievement in research, his contribution to mathematics education in the East Asian region, and his promotion of understanding between mathematics education communities in East Asian and western countries attest to the merit of Frederick Leung’s receiving the Hans Freudenthal Medal for 2013.”
2. PISA
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) is an international assessment that measures 15-year-old students' reading, mathematics, and science literacy every three years. PISA also includes measures of general or cross-curricular competencies, such as collaborative problem solving. By design, PISA emphasizes functional skills that students have acquired as they near the end of compulsory schooling. PISA is coordinated by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
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