School of Education

Education

• Ph.D. in Educational Policy Planning and Leadership, William and Mary
• M.A.E.d. in Secondary Mathematics Education, William and Mary
• B.S. in Mathematics, William and Mary
• B.A. in Religious Studies, William and Mary
  
  

Research interests

Problem solving, Metacognition, Beliefs, Executive Function, AI, Co-Design

Career highlights

• Principal Investigator, CueCollab (NSF Funded), 2023-2027
• Co-Principal Investigator, CueThinkEF+ (AERDF Funded), 2020-2025
• Georgia Southern University Award of Excellence in Faculty Discovery & Innovation, 2025.
• Associate Editor for the Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Journal, 2024-2027
• Jack Miller Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities, 2024
• AMTE Service, Teaching, and Research (STaR) Fellow, 2021-2022
  
  

Publications

• Rhodes. S., Gutierrez de Blume, A., Bryck, R., Wang, J., Frimpong, P., & Serianni, B. (In Press, 2025). Validity evidence for the middle school mathematical beliefs scales (MMBS). Proceedings of the 46th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA).
• Rhodes. S., Bryck, R., Gutierrez de Blume, A., Lee, A. DePiro, A., Wang, J., & Sethuraman, S. (In Press, 2025). The impact of web-based application on problem solving proficiency in middle school students. Proceedings of the 46th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA).
• Winger, A., Rhodes, S., Wang, J., Sethuraman, S., Bryck, R., & Frimpong, P. (In Press, 2025). Elevating student and teacher voices through co-design. Proceedings of the 46th an-nual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA).
• Rhodes, S., Gutierrez de Blume, A., Bryck, R., & Frimpong, P. (2025). Validation of a shortened measure of students’ beliefs about problem solving. Proceedings of the 52nd conference of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning.
• Rhodes, S., Reigle, K., Della Valle, R., & Gonzalez, J. (2025). Building students’ metacognitive toolboxes. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching, 118, 176–185.
• Gutiérrez de Blume, A. P., Rhodes S., & Bryck R. L. (2024). Metacognitive Awareness among Middle School Adolescents: Development and Validation of a Shortened Version of the MAI, Jr. Psychologia. Avances de la Disciplina, 18(2), 55 – 66. https://doi.org/10.21500/19002386.7034
• Gutierrez de Blume, A., Rhodes, S., & Bryck, R. (2024). Improving metacognitive monitoring in math using CueThinkEF+. Proceedings of the 45th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA).
• Moldavan, A.M., Rhodes, S., Willingham, J.C. & Eisenreich, H. (2024). Notice and wonder: Exploring common speculations from K–8 mathematics. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching. https://doi.org/10.5951/mtlt.2023.0297
• Rhodes, S., & Melville, M. (2024). Increasing teacher agency through rough draft teaching. Educational Leadership, 81 (8), 41-45. https://ascd.org/el/articles/taking-risks-with-rough-draft-teaching
• Hutt, S., DePiro, A., Wang, J., Rhodes, S., Baker, R. S., Hieb, G., Sethuraman, S., Ocumpaugh, J., & Mills, C. (2024, March). Feedback on Feedback: Comparing Classic Natural Language Processing and Generative AI to Evaluate Peer Feedback. In Proceedings of the 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (pp. 55-65). https://doi.org/10.1145/3636555.3636850
• Bryck, R., & Rhodes, S. (2024). Improvement in math problem solving is moderated by working memory. Proceedings of the 51st conference of the Research Council on Mathematics Learning.
• Rhodes, S., Bryck, R., & Gutierrez de Blume, A. (2023). Exploring factors influencing success in mathematical problem solving. Proceedings of the 44th annual conference of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA). 
• Andres, J.A.M., Baker, R., Hutt, S., Mills, C., Zhang, J., Rhodes, S., & DePiro, A. (2023). Anxiety, achievement, and self-regulated learning in CueThink. Proceedings of the annual con-ference of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. https://doi.org/
• Rhodes, S., Moldavan, A.M., Smithey, M., & DePiro, A. (2023). 5 key ideas to encourage confident math learners. Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching, 116 (1), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.5951/mtlt.2022.0225

Bio

Dr. Rhodes is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focuses on factors influencing success in mathematical problem solving, including metacognition, executive function, affect and beliefs, and strategic thinking.

Dr. Rhodes has been PI and Co-PI on multiple national, foundation, and state-funded projects generating over $6 million in funding. He is also an associate editor of the Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching Journal.

Curriculum Vitae