Dr Charisse Farr
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Personal details
Positions
- Senior Lecturer in Secondary Mathematics Education
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Teacher Education & Leadership
Keywords
Mathematics Education, Teacher Education, STEM, High School, Secondary Mathematics, Bayesian Networks, Applied Statistics
Discipline
Education Systems, Specialist Studies in Education, Statistics
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Mathematics) (Queensland University of Technology)
Professional memberships and associations
- Australian Teacher Education Association (ATEA)
- Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA)
- Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers (QAMT)
- Statistical Society of Australia (SSAI)
Teaching
Teaching achievements
- 2014: QUT Vice Chancellor’s Performance Award for Teaching and Learning
Teaching areas
- Secondary mathematics education (curriculum, pedagogy, assessment)
- Ways of thinking in STEM and STEM education
- Calculus and pre-calculus
- First year statistics
Selected publications
- Charisse Farr A, Mengersen K, Ruggeri F, Simpson D, Wu P, Yarlagadda P, (2020) Combining Opinions for Use in Bayesian Networks: A Measurement Error Approach, International Statistical Review, 88 (2), pp. 335-353.
- Farr C, Ruggeri F, Mengersen K, (2018) Prior and Posterior Linear Pooling for combining expert opinions: Uses and impact on Bayesian Networks-The case of the Wayfinding model, Entropy, 20 (3), pp. 1-14.
- Farr C, Kleinschmidt T, Johnson S, Yarlagadda P, Mengersen K, (2014) Investigating effective wayfinding in airports: a Bayesian network approach, Transport, 29 (1), pp. 90-99.
- Reddy V, Farr A, Wu P, Mengersen K, Yarlagadda P, (2014) An intuitive dashboard for Bayesian network inference, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Modeling in Physical Sciences [Journal of Physics: Conference Series, Volume 490], pp. 1-4.
- Mallet D, Bagher-Oskouei M, Farr C, Simpson D, Sutton K, (2013) A mathematical model of chlamydial infection incorporating movement of chlamydial particles, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 75 (11), pp. 2257-2270.
- Pitchforth J, Beames S, Thomas A, Falk M, Farr A, Gasson S, Thamrin T, Mengersen K, (2012) Factors affecting timely completion of a PhD: a complex systems approach, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 12 (4), pp. 124-135.
- Farr A, Kleinschmidt T, Yarlagadda P, Mengersen K, (2012) Wayfinding: A simple concept, a complex process, Transport Reviews, 32 (6), pp. 715-743.
- Farr C, Johnson S, Mengersen K, Kleinschmidt T, Wu P, (2011) Bayesian networks in airports of the future, Presented at: International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, pp. 1.
- Farr A, Wilson D, (2010) An HIV epidemic is ready to emerge in the Philippines, Journal of the International AIDS Society, 13, pp. 1-8.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Charisse, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Supervision
Current supervisions
- Teachers' TPACK and Technology Integration in Teaching and Learning: A Case Study in the Maldives
PhD, Associate Supervisor
Other supervisors: Associate Professor Vinesh Chandra