Barbara Johnson
Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
My research focuses on elementary teachers as mathematics educators. I am interested in what constitutes the specific content knowledge needed to teach mathematics in elementary schools and how that knowledge can be developed in pre-service and in-service elementary teachers. I am also interested in how attitudes that elementary teachers and their students hold toward mathematics are developed.
2018 Ph.D. Educational Studies, Ball State University
2017 Certificate in Diversity Studies, Ball State University
1985 M.S. Mathematics, Algebra, Clemson University
1983 B.S. Mathematics, Bob Jones University
Johnson, B. L. (2018). Math teachers who don’t like math: A narrative inquiry into the mathematics experience of early childhood and elementary educators who dislike mathematics (Unpublished doctoral dissertation). Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
Sadaf, A., & Johnson, B. L. (2017). Teachers’ beliefs about integrating digital literacy into classroom practice: An investigation based on the theory of planned behavior.Journal of Digital Literacy, 33(4), 129–137.
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
American Educational Studies Association (AESA)
Hoosier Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (HAMTE)
Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics (ICTM)
American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC)
Indiana Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (InMATYC)
Favorite Professor Recognition, Athletics Department, 2011
21 Club recognition for being identified by one or more freshmen for having "made a difference in their success," IUPUI, 2008
Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship, Clemson University, 1983