The main research topics are:
- ideas and representations of teachers and parents about
intelligence and educational practices
- school evaluation and attribution of social judgments in
school contex
- assessment of educational/training context: analysis of
educational interaction in the classroom and process of quality in
school system
- new media education
- quality of life in children
Ideas and representations of teachers and parents about
school: this is a topic conducted during beyond twenty years of
research; recently, changes of Italian school system bring back the
topic of social representations of intelligence and his development
as a relevant element of elaboration of mother's social role. In
specifics everyday live and care activities has been studied in
mothers of children aged 10-15 years
Process of causal attributions of school failure: in the
mainstream of the argument have been deepened psycho-social
variables, as representations of different school matters and
gender
Analysis of educational interaction in
classroom: an example of these studies is a second-level
analysis of Moreno classical sociogramma, carried out by the Social
Network Analysis (SNA), a research tool able to put toghether
quantitative and qualitative data
Tools for the assessment of Quality of Life in children
(EQ-5D child): this activity of research has been carried out
working in close collaboration with the European EuroQol group (http://www.euroqol.org)
New media education: inside the Socrates Minerva
Project (Social network and promotion of shared knowledge in
E-learning context) a specific root of research is about
good-practices in use in learning contexts on-line
Instruments of analysis of qualitative data: software
ALCESTE
