Bogusia Gierus

Bogusia Gierus has been a teacher for over 20 years in Calgary, Edmonton, and Montreal. Throughout her career, she taught math and science, but her specialty is teaching physics in secondary high school. She started her Ph.D. in the Learning Sciences in 2022 under the supervision of Dr. Brent Davis. One of her passions is to play and develop games and puzzles. One of her creations is the Hexa-Trex Puzzle, which involves arithmetic and spatial reasoning. She is excited to see how redesigning games and puzzles can be used in classrooms to transform learning.

Bogusia Gierus's CV

Selected publications

Refereed contributions

Gierus, B. & Davis, B. (in press). The Hyperlinked Visual-Spatial Map as a Novel Way to Explore an Academic Discipline. Emerging Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research in Education and Psychology.

Francis, K., Davis, B., & Gierus, B. (2023). “Uczyć się” in Metaphors of Learning in Different Languages. https://doi.org/10.11575/8B7N-V637. https://learningmetaphors.com

Laycraft, K. C., & Gierus, B. (2019). Acceptance: The key to a meaningful life. Nucleus Learning.

Muis, K. R., & Gierus, B. (2014). Beliefs about knowledge, knowing, and learning: Differences across knowledge types in physics. Journal of Experimental Education, 82, 408-430

Refereed conference contributions

Francis, K., Davis, B. & Gierus, B. (2023, April). Using robots to develop mathematical objects-to-think-with. Poster presented at Coding, Computational Modelling and Equity in Mathematics Education Symposium, Brock University, ON.

Muis, K. R., Duffy, M., Foy, M. J., Trevors, G., Ranellucci, J., Gierus, B., & Wang, X. (2012, April). Examining the nature and validity of epistemic beliefs using cognitive interviewing. In K.R. Muis (Chair), Conceptual and methodological issues and advances in research on epistemic beliefs. Paper presented as part of symposium at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.

Muis, K. R., Foy, M. J., Duffy, M., Trevors, G., Ranellucci, J., Wang, X., & Gierus, B. (2012, April). Testing the TIDE: Relations between teachers’ and students’ epistemic beliefs across high school, college, and university. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Vancouver, BC.

Muis, K. R., & Gierus, B. (April, 2011). Testing the TIDE: Differences across knowledge representations in physics. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, LA.

Laycraft, K. & Gierus, B. (2010, July). Emergence of Creativity and the Teaching Profession. Paper session at the Ninth International Congress of the Institute for Positive Disintegration in Human Development, St. Charles, IL.

Laycraft, K. & Gierus, B. (2010, May). Chaos Theory and the Process of Learning. Paper session at the Fifteenth CSSE Annual Conference, University of Concordia, Montreal, QC.