Prof. Dr. Andreas Obersteiner

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and Domain-Specific Teaching and Learning
Keywordslearning with representations, learning of fractions, understanding fraction magnitudes, Mathematics education, cognitive bias
Honours and awards

2017: Feodor-Lynen Research Grant by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

2015: James S. McDonnell Foundation Grant for Participation in Latin American School for Education, Cognitive, and Neural Sciences

2013: James S. McDonnell Foundation Grant for Participation in Latin American School for Education, Cognitive, and Neural Sciences

2012: Postdoctoral Fellowship by University of Leuven/GOW

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityMünchen
InstitutionTechnische Universität München
InstituteSchool of Social Sciences and Technology

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Martha W. AlibaliDepartment of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2017

Programme(s)

2016Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Schwarzmeier, S., Obersteiner, A., Alibali, M. W., & Marupudi, V. How do people compare visualizations of fraction magnitudes? Evidence from adults’ and children’s eye movements with continuous and discretized tape diagrams. In: Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 75, 2024,
2022Obersteiner, Andreas; Alibali, Martha Wagner; Marupudi, Vijay: Comparing Fraction Magnitudes: Adults’ Verbal Reports Reveal Strategy Flexibility and Adaptivity, but Also Bias. In: Journal of Numerical Cognition, 8, 2022, 398–413
2020Andreas Obersteiner, Martha Wagner Alibali, Vijay Marupudi: Complex fraction comparisons and the natural number bias: The role of benchmarks. In: Learning and Instruction, 2020,