Dr Paola Iannone (PhD)
Deputy Director of Teaching (Students)
Contact details
- Email: paola.iannone@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Personal website
Address
- Street
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School of Mathematics
James Clerk Maxwell Building
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
The University of Edinburgh - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH9 3FD
Background
I am a Reader in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh in the The Technology Enhanced Mathematical Sciences Education research Theme I am also visiting fellow in the Department of Mathematics Education at Loughborough University and Visiting Fellow in the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia. I completed my first degree in mathematics at the University La Sapienza in Rome (Italy) and my PhD in algebraic geometry at the University of East Anglia with Prof Alan Camina.
Responsibilities & affiliations
I am member of:
– The London Mathematical Society – The European Society for Research in Mathematics Education (ERME) – The International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) – The British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics (BRLMS)
Undergraduate teaching
I teach the course MATH10010 Mathematics Education and I am part of the team teaching the course Calculus and its Applications.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
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. My research areas are - broadly speaking: the summative assessment of mathematics at university level, mathematical reasoning and programming at university level.
Research summary
My research focuses on the teaching and learning of mathematics at university level and has three strands:
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summative assessment of mathematics at university
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mathematical reasoning and technology in university mathematcsi tecahing (use of automated theorem provers isuch as Lean - CAA assessment)
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The transition from school to university mathematics
In the first strand I am interested in the impact of the discipline of study and student epistemological beliefs on their perceptions of assessment. Much of my work in this field has been supported by the HEA. I am also interested in university students’ study habits when preparing for assessment and the use of e-assessment.
My second research interest is mathematical reasoning at post-compulsory level, with emphasis on the use of Interactive Theorem Provers Lean (https://leanprover-community.github.io) for teaching first year mathematics.
Recently I have been involve in research on the transition from school to university mathematics from a holistic viewpoint. This work has led to the publication of the special issue for Educational Study in Mathematics available at https://link.springer.com/journal/10649/volumes-and-issues/113-1 which I edited with Pietro Di Martino (University' di Pisa, IT) and Francesca Gregorio (Haute École Pédagogique de Vaud, CH).