Ana Remesal

In 1997, I graduated as a School Counselor at the University of Barcelona. I presented my doctoral thesis at the same university some years later, in 2006, on the topic of teachers’ and students’ conceptions about assessment in mathematics education. More concretely, my research dealt with whatever teachers and pupils from early primary and up to secondary education identify as a mathematical problem for the purpose of assessing mathematical learning. As a main result of the thesis, I propose a model of Teachers' Conceptions of Assessment (QMTCoA), which you can find in my article published in TATE, 2011.

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I am working with the research group GRINTIE since 1999. In between, I worked for one year at the J.W.Goethe University of Frankfurt (2002-2003) as Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin (short: WiMi) at the Institut f. Didaktik d. Mathematik. in 2004 I rejoined the University of Barcelona, as Teacher Educator and Educational Researcher. From 2007 to 2011 I was collaborating with CENIDET in México for evaluating several online remedial courses. 

 

During my doctoral research years, having different predoctoral research grants (from the Universitat de Barcelona and the DAAD), I happily had the chance to work with, and learn very much from, all sorts of good teachers from the Academia all over the world: Prof.Dr. H.Bauersfeld (Universität Bielefeld), Prof.Dr. G.Krummheuer (Freie Universität Berlin/J.W.Goethe Univeristät Frankfurt), Prof.Dr. J.Voigt (Westfällische Universität Münster), Sen.Lec.Dr. B.Atweh (Queensland University of Technology), Ass.Prof. D.J.Clarke & Dr. G.Williams (University of Melbourne), Prof. T.J.Cooney (University of Georgia), Dr. Ch.Schreiber (J.W.Goethe Univeristät Frankfurt).

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I am also very grateful to the additional experts who were involved in the final steps of the evaluation of my dissertation, enabling the achievement of a ‘EU.Dr.’ grade and Doctoral Award: Prof. Dr. U.Gellert (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. L.Burton (University of Birmingham), Dr. M.Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen (Universiteit Utrecht), Prof. T.Wood (Purdue University), and Dr. D.Wiliam (University Princeton).

 

I am still very interested in my doctoral field; however, some other topics have drawn my attention as well during the past years, such as e-learning, and blended learning (and related topics, such as collaborative computer supported learning, learning through collaborative writing, social presence, the use of metaphors in teaching and learning in online contexts, and last but not least, motivation). All of these topics I address mainly from a qualitative perspective. Interpretive content, interaction, discourse and narrative analysis are the main research techniques I use. Lately, I have had the chance to take a glance at quantitative research, too, in collaboration with some insightful colleagues, as Dr. Gavin Brown (University of Auckland) or Dr. Thomas Martens (Medical School Hamburg), and even more recently I discovered the other side of the moon together with Prof.Dr.D.Leclercq, triggering the challenge of connecting the French- and English-speaking academia revolving metacognition and assessment.

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Always on the learning path!