{"id":4928,"date":"2020-11-09T15:42:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T15:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developmenttwo.marymount.edu\/staff-members\/alice-petillo\/"},"modified":"2023-10-18T12:47:44","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T16:47:44","slug":"alice-petillo","status":"publish","type":"staff-member","link":"https:\/\/marymount.edu\/staff-members\/alice-petillo\/","title":{"rendered":"Alice Petillo"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n \r\n
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Academic Credentials<\/b><\/p>\n

B.A., M.Ed., University of Maryland
\nM.A.R., Westminster Theological Seminary
\nPh.D., George Mason University<\/p>\n

Biography<\/b><\/p>\n

Dr. Alice E. Petillo conducts research in the area of mathematics education. She earned her Ph.D. at George Mason University and holds a\u00a0Virginia Postgraduate Professional License in Mathematics and Spanish. She has long-term experience teaching mathematics at the secondary and undergraduate levels.<\/p>\n

Dr. Petillo is particularly interested in helping pre-service teachers students develop a positive relationship with mathematics and experience its beauty, power, and utility. She conducts research on the transformative power of out-of-classroom informal learning events such as STEM Festivals. She has presented and written about the results of her research at local and international meetings.<\/p>\n

Dr. Petillo is committed to helping students develop a positive relationship with mathematics and experience its beauty, power, and utility.\u00a0Having developed two courses using a co-requisite model, she conducts research to demonstrate its effectiveness in improving college retention and graduation rates. She engages in cross-curricular approaches, in the past having designed a university-wide Math, Art, Fashion event. She currently collaborates with the nursing program to support mandated math proficiency. She is a regular presenter at regional and international conferences sharing teaching resources, activities and educational tools. Her mission is to support students having experiences with current applications of mathematical topics in their undergraduate classes<\/p>\n

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