Dr. Katherine Robinson, Associate Professor of Psychology

Dr. Katherine Robinson

Associate Professor of Psychology
BA Hons (Bishop's), MSc, PhD (Alberta)

Phone: (306) 359-1248
E-mail: Katherine.Robinson@uregina.ca

Teaching Interests

Child, lifespan, and adolescent development; cognitive development; aging cognition; infant cognition; introductory psychology; and the Holocaust.

Research Interests

Cognitive development with special emphases on the development of conceptual and strategic understanding in arithmetic in both children and adults.

Research Centre

The Campion College Mathematical Cognition Centre (mc2) is composed of Drs. Katherine Arbuthnott, Tom Phenix, and Katherine Robinson, and undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in research on various aspects of children and adults' mathematical thinking.

Representative Publications

Robinson, K. M., Ninowski, J. E., & Gray, M. L. (2006). Children's performance on inversion problems: Are all inversion problems the same? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 94, 349-362.

Robinson, K. M., Arbuthnott, K. D., Rose, D., McCarron, M. C., Globa, C. A., & Phonexay, S. D. (2006). Children's strategies for solving simple division problems. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 93, 224-238.

Robinson, K. M., & Ninowski, J. E. (2003). Adults' understanding of invesion concepts: How does performance on addition and subtraction inversion problems compare to performance on multiplication and division inversion problems? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 57, 321-330.

Robinson, K. M., Arbuthnott, K. D., & Gibbons, K. A. (2002). Adults' representations of division facts: A consequence of learning history? Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 56, 302-309.

Robinson, K. M. (2001). The validity of verbal reports in children's subtraction. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 211-222.

Current Scholarly Projects

The development of conceptual and strategic knowledge of division and inversion (NSERC funded).

The processing of poetry and prose as assessed through eye-tracking (U of R funded).