Experience

Touch Graphics, Project Evaluator and Curriculum Developer. 2002-present.
Baruch College and Borough of Manhattan Community College, Adjunct Assistant Professor. 1996-present.
Upsala College, Assistant Professor. 1993-1995.
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Assistant Professor. 1992-1993.
City University of New York, Research and Evaluation Specialist. 1985-1992.
Newark Board of Education, Research and Evaluation Specialist, 1982-1985.
Learning and Evaluation Consultant, 1981-present.

Projects

Project Evaluator: WiiCane (Accelerometer-Based Mobility Training Tool); TMAP; Illustrated Talking DAISY Books; TTT Authoring Tool; Talking Tactile Atlas of the World.
Curriculum developer: Audio-Tactile Statistics Courseware..

Education

New York University, MA, PhD, Educational Psychology.
Hunter College, AB, Psychology.

Selected Presentations

“Computer Interfaces for Enhancing Visual Learning for Students with Visual Processing Disabilities.” Co-presenter at the Joint Mathematics Meetings (Mathematics Association of America and American Mathematical Society), San Diego, CA, January 2008. (With Karen Luxton Gourgey)

“Audio-Tactile Methods to Teach Statistics to Visually Impaired Students.” Co-presenter at the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Cincinnati, OH, November 2006. (With Richard Holborow)

“Promoting Literacy in Statistics: A Multisensory Approach.” Co-presenter at the Twenty-first Annual Technology and Persons with Disabilities International Conference, Los Angeles, CA, March 2006. Sponsored by the California State University at Northridge (CSUN) Center on Disabilities. (With Karen Luxton Gourgey and Steven Landau)

Selected Presentations

Khazanov, L., Gourgey, A., & Peskoff, F. (2009).  Addressing students’ misconceptions about probability in an introductory college statistics course: The instructors’ perspectives.  Abstracts of the American Mathematical Society, Issue 151 (January), 29(6), 317.

Gourgey, A. F. (2007).  Critical reading in the statistics classroom.  BMCC Inquirer, 14, 21-27.

Gourgey, A. F., Holborow, R., & Gourgey, K. L. (2006).  Using audio-tactile methods to teach statistics to visually impaired students.  Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, Cincinnati, OH, 202-205.
http://www.amatyc.org/publications/Electronic-proceedings/2006Cincinnati/Gourgey-Holborow-Gourgey.pdf

Gourgey, A. F. (2000).  A classroom simulation based on political polling to help students understand sampling distributions.  Journal of Statistics Education [Online], 8(3).  www.amstat.org/publications/jse/v8n3_abstracts.html

Gourgey, A. F. (1998).  Metacognition in basic skills instruction.  Instructional Science, 26, 81-96.