Ellis was awarded the Early Career Publication Award from the Research in Mathematics Education special interest group of the
American Educational Research Association in 2008.[20]
^Ellis, A.B. (2004). Relationships between Generalizing and Justifying: Students' Reasoning with Linear Functions. (Unpublished doctoral dissertation.) University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University.
^Ellis, A.B. (2011). Generalizing promoting actions: How classroom collaborations can support students’ mathematical generalizations. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 42(4), 308 – 345
^Ellis, A.B. (2007). Connections between generalizing and justifying: Students' reasoning with linear relationships. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 38(3), 194 – 229.
^Lobato, J., Clarke, D., & Ellis, A.B. (2005). Initiating and eliciting in teaching: A reformulation of telling. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 36(2), 101–136
^Ellis, A.B. (2007). The influence of reasoning with emergent quantities on students’ generalizations. Cognition and Instruction, 25(4), 439–478.
^Ellis, A.B. (2007). A taxonomy for categorizing generalizations: Generalizing actions and reflection generalizations. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 16(2), 221 – 262.
^Hyde, J., Lindberg, S., Linn, M., Ellis, A.B., & Williams, C. (2008). Gender similarities characterize math performance. Science, 321(5888), 494 – 495.
^Lobato, J., & Ellis, A.B. (2010). Essential understandings project: Ratios, proportions, and proportional reasoning (Gr. 6 – 8). National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
^Lannin, J., Ellis, A.B., & Elliott, R. (2011). Essential understandings project: Mathematical reasoning (Gr. K – 8). National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
^Bieda, K., Ellis, A.B., & Knuth, E. (2012). Essential understandings project: Proof and proving (grades 9–12). National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
^Understanding and Cultivating the Connections Between Students’ Natural Ways of Reasoning and Mathematical Ways of Reasoning. In collaboration with Eric Knuth (principal investigator) and Charles Kalish (co-principal investigator) at U.W. Madison. $741,938 from the National Science Foundation Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering (REESE), 2008 – 2011.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0814710
^Supporting Students’ Proof Practices through Quantitative Reasoning in Algebra. $730,417 from the National Science Foundation CAREER program through Discovery Research K–12 (DRK12), 2010 – 2015.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0952415
^New Trends in Gender and Mathematics Performance: Meta-Analytic Synthesis. In collaboration with Janet Hyde (principal investigator) at U.W. Madison, and Marcia Linn (co-principal investigator) at U.W. Berkeley]. $199,838 from the National Science Foundation Synthesis Research Program, 2006 – 2009.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0635444
^Coordinating Social and Individual Aspects of Generalizing Activity: A Multi-tiered “Focusing Phenomena” Study. In collaboration with Joanne Lobato (principal investigator) at San Diego State University]. $577,468 at the U.W. site from the National Science Foundation Research on Learning and Education (RoLE), 2005 – 2008.
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=0529502