Wee Tiong Seah

Students’ valuing of maths (in TIMSS 2023)
Grade 8 students’ valuing of mathematics was examined in relation to their mathematics performance in the latest cycle of TIMSS. The report can be found here, and the dataset is available for download here.
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/08/21/students-valuing-of-maths-in-timss-2023
Meeting up over dinner at EARCOME9 Conference
Some of us attending the EARCOME 9 Conference in Korea in 2025 Jul met up over dinner for a catch-up and chat. It was a heartwarming evening! [Click on title above for the video]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/08/14/meeting-up-over-dinner-at-earcome9-conference
Next seminar in Melbourne. All welcome!
All are welcomed to a seminar session on values alignment in Melbourne on 19 Aug (Tue), to be delivered by Assoc Prof Fatma Nur Aktaş (Kahramanmaraş Sütçü Imam University, Turkiye)!Click on the title above for details.(Note that this seminar will take place in-person only)
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/08/14/next-seminar-in-melbourne-all-welcome
Everything depend on our values
Words like ‘purposes’ and ‘intentions’ could have been used in place of ‘values’ by Professor Guy Claxton in this ppt slide shown, at his sell-out, brilliant Dean’s Lecture last week. His choice reminds us why understanding, developing and utilising what we value in (mathematics) education is fundamental to improving teaching and learning. 💪 (Photo credit: […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/05/12/everything-depend-on-our-values
Third Wave Lab Melbourne research seminar
For those of you who are physically in Melbourne, the Third Wave Lab is thrilled to invite you to join us in a research seminar featuring one of our researchers, Dr Emily Sum. Her talk will examine the relevance (or not) of Neo-Confucian values in mathematics education in our society today. You are also welcomed […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/04/13/third-wave-lab-melbourne-research-seminar
Upcoming research seminar in Melbourne (8 May 2025)
Greetings everyone! This is an advance notice for those of you in Melbourne to keep the afternoon of 8 May (Thu) available, if you would like to join us in a research seminar to be presented by Dr Emily Sum who is visiting Melbourne that week. The title will be confirmed in a few weeks, […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/04/05/upcoming-research-seminar-in-melbourne-8-may-2025
Fatma in Melbourne for 2025
Assoc Prof Fatma Nur Aktas (Kahramanmaras Sutcu Imam University, Türkiye) is conducting a postdoc research related to Values Alignment in Mathematics Education at Monash University, Australia. She is working with Dr Penelope Kalogeropoulos and Dr James Russo there. She will be in Melbourne till Voc 2025.Folks who are in Melbourne, or who are visiting Melbourne […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/02/19/fatma-in-melbourne-for-2025
Seminar on Mathematical Wellbeing
At the invitation of Utah State University (USA), Dr Julia Hill (Australia) will be presenting a seminar on mathematical wellbeing on 19 Feb at 3.30pm local time, 20 Feb (Thu) at 9.30am Melbourne/Sydney time. All are welcomed – attend face-to-face if you are in Utah, or via ZOOM otherwise (see flyer for the ZOOM QR […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/02/13/seminar-on-mathematical-wellbeing
A review of our latest ‘values book’
This review of our latest ‘values book, edited by Yüksel Dede, Gosia Marschall, and Phil Clarkson, was published in a recent issue of ‘Educational Studies in Mathematics’. We would like to congratulate the three editors for a review which concludes with the sentence: “as claimed in its title, this book focuses on practice and, thus, […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/01/25/a-review-of-our-latest-values-book
A study involving student happiness in maths learning …
… which would be different from Julia Hill’s conception of mathematical wellbeing (MWB) and also different from Juan Zhong’s notion of maths education well-being (MEW). This is a study conducted in Nepal examining how effective pedagogy, internal assessment, student happiness in maths learning relate to students’ sense of empowerment. Joshi, D. R., Belbase, S., Khanal, […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2025/01/23/a-study-involving-student-happiness-in-maths-learning
Melbourne Symposium 2/2024
For Melbourne-based colleagues, this is a reminder of our second symposium this year, taking place this Thurs 1pm-4pm. The program is accessible here (click on title above to access hyperlink).
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/24/melbourne-symposium-2-2024
New paper on the MWB of New Zealand students
Congrats on a new paper recently published by Jodie Hunter and Julia Hill! This paper examines the mathematical wellbeing among 12,000+ diverse primary and secondary students in New Zealand. The standout finding? The highest proportion of students across all cultural groups reported peer support and collaboration as crucial to their mathematical wellbeing – mentioning it […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/09/24/new-paper-on-the-mwb-of-new-zealand-students
Values presentations at PME Conference this year
Not counting those values presentations based on the EVT, there are 8 values presentations at the PME Conference this year (2 Research Reports, 5 Oral Communications, 1 poster). In addition, Prof JeongSuk Pang’s plenary speech also related the Korean team’s findings in the VAS Study. These 9 pieces of writings can be accessed here.
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/29/values-presentations-at-pme-conference-this-year
The 2024 2nd International Conference on Affective Education
Some of you might be interested in submitting an abstract / extended summary for this conference that will take place in Taiwan in Oct this year. It’s fully sponsored, which means that there will be no registration fee.Visit the conference website for details and submissions:https://sites.google.com/g.nccu.edu.tw/2024icae/nccu-icae
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/07/03/the-2024-2nd-international-conference-on-affective-education
Melbourne Symposium 2024
Come (in-person or via ZOOM) join us in a half-day symposium to be held on 2 Jul (Tues)! As the program below suggests, this event will not only provide us with a chance to listen to team progress / achievement, but also to share common issues that we encounter in our respective researching work. It […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/06/22/melbourne-symposium-2024
The latest ‘values book’ is out!
Our next collection of some of the latest findings in values/valuing research is now published! Editted by three of our colleagues in this area of mathematics educational research, Yüksel Dede, Gosia Marschall, and Philip Clarkson, “Values and valuing in mathematics education: Moving forward into practice” promises to be the go-to guide for designing and implementing […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/02/26/the-latest-values-book-is-out
Message from Dr Ralf Erens
Dear friends in values research, For the upcoming 30th MAVI conference in September 2024, participantswho want a guaranteed admission to the conference need to pre-registerby February 16th in the pre-registration phase. Due to theextraordinary resonance of MAVI 30 in the community, the conferenceorganisers must have the opportunity to estimate the capacity ofconference rooms and accommodation. […]
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/02/13/message-from-dr-ralf-erens
Miho’s cross-cultural analysis
Miho Yamazaki spent some time in Melbourne to collect and analyse local data, before conducting a cross-cultural comparative study between Japanese and Australian students. The paper, written in Japanese, is accessible at:https://thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/files/2024/01/Yamazaki-2023-138e67e795723903.pdf
thirdwavelab.education.unimelb.edu.au/2024/01/27/mihos-cross-cultural-analysis

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