Formative Assessment for mathematics teaching and learning. Teacher Professional Development Research by Videoanalysis Methodologies

PhD in Mathematics Education, she is Researcher in Mathematics Education at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Faculty of Education. Her main research interests concern the Didactic Contract at all school levels, formative assessment in mathematics and formative use of standardized assessments. For years she has been involved in mathematics teachers professional development. She is member of CRESPI Center.

She is a member of the Special Teaching Staff of the Department of Education at the University of Cyprus (2011-2017). She was a Research Associate in the program of the Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation “The role of representation in learning functions and geometry in the context of the shift from lower secondary education (gymnasium) to upper secondary education (lyceum)” and in the Research Program of the University of Cyprus “Spatial Ability and Geometrical Thinking Development”. She also participated in the project “History of Mathematics Education in Cyprus 1878-1960” of the Centre of Scientific Research of the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Associate professor of Educational Research at the Department of Education "Giovanni Maria Bertin" of the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. Her research activities (also in collaboration with CRESPI-Center of Research on teacher professionalism) are focused on topics such as formative evaluation research and curricular planning; studies on teacher training with the use of technics of video-analysis in classroom; use of formative assessment and classroom observation.