Dr Tasos Barkatsas is a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Statistics and STEM Education, a Quantitative Data Analyst and Leader of the STEM, Industry and Learning Sciences Research Theme, School of Education, RMIT University.
Dr Barkatsas was the Founding Program Director of the RMIT Master of Teaching Practice (MTP) Programs (Primary and Secondary), and has published more than 150 research papers, chapters, books, refereed conference papers and has delivered a number of invited keynote addresses.
Dr Barkatsas was a Mathematics, Physics, Science and IT teacher, Head of Mathematics and Science and Principal in Victorian schools for fifteen years before becoming an academic. He has been an academic at Melbourne, Monash and RMIT Universities; Principal Research Fellow (Honorary), Hellenic Society of Educational Evaluation and a Research Partner for Digital Practicum 3.0: Exploring Augmented Reality, Remote Classrooms and Virtual Learning to Enrich and Expand Preservice Teacher Preparation, which was Funded by the Erasmus+ in the European Union.
Dr Barkatsas is a delegate in the DSC's Ethics Committee and the School's Research Committee. He has been a Visiting Professor at the National University of Athens, Greece, in 2004, The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa and the University of Salamanca, Spain, in October-November, 2022. Dr Barkatsas is a delegate of the DSC's Ethics Committee and the School's Research Committee, and the Chief Series Editor of Brill's Global Education in the 21st Century Book Series (https://brill.com/search?q1=Barkatsas+Tasos).
Dr Barkatsas serves in the following Editorial Boards (selected):
He is the Editor in the following Volumes:
Research Inquiry Methods
Secondary and Primary Methematics Teaching and Learning Methods
Literacy and Numeracy across the curriculm
The Education of Gifted and Talented students
Assessment and Evaluation
Mathematics Education
STEM Education
The Education of Gifted, Talented and Creative students
Students' and teachers' beliefs, values, attitudes, emotions and wellbeing
Cognitive, affective, DT, AI, cybernetics, neuroscience dimensions of contemporary education
Assessment and evaluation
Secondary and primary mathematics literacy
Secondary and primary curriculum development in Mathematics and STEM
Calculus and Statistics Education.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.