Prospective PhD Students
If you are interested in studying for a PhD in an area that matches my research interest you are welcome to email me with ideas at paola.iannone@ed.ac.uk .
Current and Completed PhD students
Pablo Ortuño Floria The summative assessment of mathematics at university. To complete 2030.
Chiara Canclini Learning mathematics with Interactive Theorem Provers. To complete 2028
Samah Taha, Feedback in e-assessment. To complete 2027.
Saf Shah, Undergraduate Students’ Conceptions of Intuition and Rigour and their Awareness of the Roles of Proof. Completed 2025.
Mohammad Turk, A comparative case study of engineering undergraduates: An exploration of learners’ epistemological beliefs and professional identity development. Completed 2020
Thi Thu Huyen Nguyen, A study of implementation of authentic assessment in a range of professional courses in HoChi Minh City University of Pedagogy, Vietnam. Completed 2018
Breda O’Brien, Effective Teaching: Accounting students perspectives of post-primary and higher level education experiences. Completed 2015.
Peter Paul Okurut, Facilitating Conceptual Change through Classroom Intervention: Learning Fractions from Prior Knowledge in the Ugandan Educational and Cultural Context. Completed 2013
Che-Yu Shen, An Exploration of Students’ Construction of Meaning through Symbolic Manipulation and Table / Graph Use in Statistical Inference Tasks: The Cases of Normal and Distributions. Completed December 2013
Modh Faizal Niza Lee Abdullah, Communicating mathematically: self regulating strategies and mathematics learning in secondary school. Completed August 2011