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Editorial Board

The Editorial Board is responsible for the overall organisation and management of the journal. It coordinates the entire editorial process, from the receipt of articles to their publication, and oversees the peer review of manuscripts, assigning contributions to the most appropriate reviewers and monitoring adherence to deadlines. It also verifies that the texts comply with the journal’s formal standards, from editorial guidelines to the correct citation of sources. Another key task is to plan each individual issue, selecting the most suitable contributions and determining their overall structure. The Board also maintains ongoing dialogue with authors and reviewers, providing practical guidance and coordinating any revisions. Ultimately, through all these activities, it ensures the editorial quality of the entire publication, guaranteeing the consistency, clarity and accuracy of its content.

ORGANISATION CHART

Head of Editorial Board

Name
Bio
Subject Area
Affiliation
Patrizia Falzetti
Technologist Director, is the Head of the INVALSI Area of the Evaluation Research, of the SISTAN Statistical Office and of the INVALSI Statistical Service which manages data acquisition, analysis and return about both national and international surveys on learning (OECD and IEA). She coordinates and manages the process about returning data and statistical analysis to every school and to the Ministry of Education and Merit.
13/STAT-02
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Members of Editorial Board

Name
Bio
Subject Area
Affiliation
Giovanni Maria Abbiati
Associate professor of economic sociology at the University of Brescia. His research focuses on the evaluation of public policies in the field of education, on educational inequality, and the role of digital media in learning processes.
GSPS-08/A
University of Brescia – Departement of Economics and Management
Amina Afif
Educational policy adviser and leadership coach bridging research, policy, and school practice. With over twenty years’ experience in Luxembourg and Seychelles, she supports ministries and school leaders in autonomy, strategic planning, and the meaningful use of data for improvement.
14/GSPS-06
Flip+
Gianluca Argentin
14/GSPS-05
University of Milano Bicocca – Department of Sociology and Social Research
Massimo Attanasio
Full Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Palermo since 2004, where he teaches Social Statistics in the Bachelor’s Degree Course and Biostatistics in the Master’s Degree Course. He graduated in Statistical Sciences from the University of Palermo in 1982, obtained a PhD in Applied Statistics from the University of Padua in 1991 and completed a post-doctoral period at the University of California Los Angeles in 1992. He carries out research activities in the field of social statistics and the analysis of training courses and student mobility. He is a member of the PhD in “Economics, Business and Statistics”, Associate Editor of the Italian Journal of Statistics and member of the Editorial Committee of the INVALSI magazine “European Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education”. He has been Principal Investigator of several national projects, including the PRIN 2017 dedicated to the analysis of university mobility and the North-South divide, as well as head of the Scientific Degrees Project for the Degree Course in Statistics.
13/STAT-03/B
University of Palermo
Barbara Baldazzi
She was graduate in Demographic and Social Statistical Sciences and she has been working in the field of social statistics at Istat since 1997. She was in charge of the Adult Education Survey in 2012 and 2017. She is involved in the Equitable and Sustainable Well-being (BES) project for the Education and Training Domain. Until 2024, she was involved in the project on the UN’s SDG indicators.
13/STAT-03
ISTAT
Chris Brown
Professor of Education and Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. His research focuses on educational leadership, evidence-informed practice, democratic intelligence, and how individuals and systems engage with knowledge.
11/D2
University of Southampton
Simona Comi
Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She holds a PhD in Economics, and her research focuses on education and labour economics and the empirical analysis of public policies. She is an IZA@LISER Research Fellow.
13/ECON-01/A
University of Milano Bicocca – Department of Business and Law
Alberto Fornasari
Associate Professor of Experimental Pedagogy (qualified as Full Professor in 2021) at the Department of Education, Psychology and Communication Sciences of the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy. He serves as Head of CIRPAS (Inter-University Centre for Research and Training on Population, Environment and Health). As the Department’s Delegate for Third Mission activities, he is a member of the Doctoral Board in Human Sciences (University of Bari Aldo Moro) and of the Doctoral Board in Leadership, Empowerment and Digital Innovation in Education and Learning (LEDIEL). He is a member of the Executive Board of the Italian Society for Media Education Research (SIREM), Principal Investigator and Coordinator of several European and international research projects (Erasmus+, PRIN, INTERREG, and Horizon Seeds). He is the author of more than 120 scientific publications and has served as speaker and keynote speaker at numerous national and international conferences. His research interests include intercultural education, media education, innovative teaching and learning methodologies, educational technologies, e-learning, inclusive education, and educational assessment. He is also a member of the working group “Definition of Professional Competence Frameworks for School Personnel” established by the School of Advanced Training for Education (SAFI) of the Italian Ministry of Education and Merit. In 2019, he received the Italian Pedagogy Prize awarded by the Italian Society of Pedagogy (SIPED) for the volume “Intergenerational Encounters: Reflections and Empirical Data”. In 2025, he was awarded the Aldo Visalberghi Prize by the Italian Society of Educational Research (SIRD) for the article “The Influence of Media and Emotions in the Post-Truth Era: A Study on Civic Attitude”. An expert in guidance-oriented teaching and learning, he serves on the scientific boards of several top-ranked (Class A) academic journals and is the Editor of the book series “Trajectories of Experimental Pedagogy: Empirical Research for Inclusion”, published by FrancoAngeli. He has held Visiting Professorships at numerous European and non-European universities and currently directs several first- and second-level postgraduate Master’s programmes at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.
11/PAED-02
University of Bari
Orazio Giancola
Associate Professor of General Sociology at Sapienza University of Rome. His research focuses on social research methods, educational inequalities, education systems, and quantitative analysis of social processes.
14/GSPS-06
University of Rome “Sapienza” – Department of Social Sciences and Economics
Andrea Garavaglia
11/PAED-02
University “Pegaso”
Sergio Longobardi
Associate Professor of Economic Statistics at the University of Naples Parthenope. He is the author of numerous scientific articles published in international journals, conference proceedings, books, and book chapters. His research interests include equity in education systems, the measurement of socio-emotional skills, and the quality of statistical data.
13/STAT-02
University of Naples “Parthenope” – Department of Business and Quantitative Studies (DISAQ)
Rosaria Lumino
14/GSPS-05
University of Naples “Federico II” – Department of Social Sciences
Giuseppina Marsico
Associate Professor of Development and Educational Psychology at the University of Salerno (Italy), , Visiting Professor at Ph.D Programme in Psychology, Federal University of Bahia, (Brazil) and Associate Researcher at Aalborg University (Denmark). She is Past President of the American Psychological Association-Division 52 Society for a Global Psychology and Past President of the European Society of Psychology Learning and Teaching (ESPLAT).
11/E2
University of Salerno – Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Education
Giovanni Moretti
Full Professor at Roma Tre University, Department of Education. He is Director of the postgraduate programme in Leadership and Management in Education and Head of the Laboratory of Didactics and Assessment of Learning and Attitudes. He has served as a member of the Executive Board of the Italian Society for Didactic Research (SIRD, Società Italiana di Ricerca Didattica) and is a founding member of the Federation of Scientific Societies for Educational Research (FERE, Federazione Società Scientifiche Ricerca Educativa). His research focuses on teaching and learning processes, instructional and educational design, the assessment of learning outcomes, initial and in-service teacher training, the practice of educational leadership, and the Italian integrated system 0-6 for early childhood education and care.
11/PAED-02/A
Roma Tre University – Department of Education
Christian Morabito
Senior Researcher at Save the Children Italy since 2014, where he developed the Educational Poverty Index aimed at measuring educational deprivation among children in Italy. He also works as an expert on inequalities, education policies, and early childhood education with UNICEF, the OECD, and the European Commission at both European and global levels. Over the course of his career, he has worked with the United Nations and the World Bank, particularly in the management of cooperation programmes focused on poverty reduction and education. He holds a PhD in Social Policies from Ghent University (Belgium) and has gained extensive experience in research and technical assistance on the measurement of inequalities, especially the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage in relation to education, as well as on the design of policies and programmes to address them, and on monitoring and evaluation.
14/GSPS-05
Save the Children
Serafina Pastore
Associate Professor at Department of Research and Humanities Innovation, University of Bari, Italy. Her research examines on the complex intersections of assessment practice, teacher education and educational policy as operating within the context of school and university innovations. Her recent work focuses on teacher assessment literacy and formative assessment.
11-PAED/02
University of Bari “A. Moro” – Department of Humanities Research and Innovation
Giulia Pastori
Full Professor of Didactics and Special Education at the University of Milan-Bicocca. She is Rector’s Delegate for Teacher Education and coordinates the dedicated University Centre. Her research interests include student voice, participation and democratic education/didactics, and the evaluation of the quality of educational and learning environments.
11/PAED-02
University of Milano Bicocca
Paolo Raviolo
Full Professor of Experimental Pedagogy at eCampus University (Novedrate, CO). Since 2003, he has carried out research and teaching activities in the fields of educational technologies, didactics, and educational assessment in Bachelor’s, Master’s, postgraduate, and professional development programs at the University of Siena, the University of Turin, the Polytechnic University of Turin, and the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan. He is the coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Teacher Training Center (CEMFI) and the Research Center on Digital Education, Teaching, and Social Innovation (CREDDI) at eCampus University, as well as the university’s Faculty Development Committee. The research activity focuses on educational research, analyzing—through empirical and experimental methodologies—the impact of digital technologies on learning and, in particular, e-learning in terms of design, models, assessment methodologies, and competencies. The areas of study include schools, universities, professional contexts, and lifelong learning.
PAED-02/A
University E-Campus – Department of Human and Social Sciences (DISUS)
Barbara Romano
Educational researcher at Fondazione Agnelli. Her work focuses on education policy design and evaluation, with particular expertise in counterfactual impact evaluation and randomized controlled trials (RCTs). She holds a PhD in Evaluation of Educational Policy and an MSc from the University of Pennsylvania.
SECS-P/01, 11/D2, M‑PED/03, M‑PED/01
Fondazione Agnelli
Daniele Vidoni
13/ECON-06
European Commission, Directorate General for Education, Youth, Culture and Sports, Evidence-based policy and evaluation Unit
Giuliano Vivanet
Full Professor of Experimental Pedagogy at the University of Cagliari. Founding member of the Society for Evidence-Informed Learning and Instruction (S.Ap.I.E.), where he currently serves as Vice President, his work focuses on evidence-based education, educational technologies, and teacher education.
11/PAED-02, PAED-02/B
University of Cagliari – Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy
Maria Assunta Zanetti
Associate Professor at the University of Pavia and she is founder and director of the Italian Laboratory of Research and Intervention for the Development of Talent, Potential and Giftedness and she is a member of the committee of the Italian Ministry of Education for the development of gifted and talented guidelines. Her main fields of research focused on gifted children’s development, socio-emotional development, resilience, youth risk behaviours, bullying and cyberbullying, vocational guidance, decision-making processes. She participated in several research projects in the developmental and educational psychology areas and she has published several papers, book chapters and handbooks.
M-PSI/04 (ex M11A)
University of Pavia
Cristina Zucchermaglio
P.h.D is Full Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Social and Dvelopmental Psychology of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She is Head of the “Interaction & Culture Laboratory “(LInC) and of P.h.D Programme on “Communication, Interaction, Socialization”. She specializes in ethnographically based field studies of social interaction and organization of cognition in everyday settings such as: school, families, high-tech companies, children’s homes, hospitals, sport teams.
11/PSIC-03
University of Rome “Sapienza” – Department of Psychology of Developmental and Socialization Processes – Faculty of Medicine and Psychology
Paolo Barabanti
He has a PhD in the evaluation of educational systems and processes. He previously worked as a primary school teacher. He is currently a researcher at INVALSI, where his work involves disseminating the results of National Assessments, providing professional development for teachers and school leaders, and conducting research on students’ digital competence. He also serves as an adjunct university lecturer, teaching on courses related to teaching and learning, assessment, and research methodology. His main research interests include high-achieving students, data literacy, large-scale assessments and assessment tools.
14/GSPS-06/A
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Clelia Cascella
PhDs in Social Research Methodology and in Economics. She is a Senior Researcher at INVALSI as well as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She focuses on social statistics, subjective measurement, and ordinal data analysis, contributing to the development of innovative methods for social research and the empirical evaluation of complex phenomena.
STAT-03/B, GSPS-05/A, MATH-01/B
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Michela Freddano
Senior researcher and head of the Research Area on School Evaluation at INVALSI. She is vice-president of the RC10 of the International Sociological Association Participation, Organizational Democracy and Self-Management and member of the Editorial Board of the Italian Journal of Evaluation.
14/GSPS-05
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Giuseppina Le Rose
Psychologist and expert in psychological assessment and counseling. She has conducted numerous initiatives for school and career orientation and collaborated on the development and validation of psycho-aptitude, cognitive, and personality tests. She is currently a Researcher and Head of Integrated Surveys, particularly those targeting teachers and school principals, at the Statistical Service of the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education and Training System (INVALSI).
M-PSI/04
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Laura Palmerio
Holds a degree in Psychology, a PhD in Innovation and Evaluation of Education Systems, and a specialization in Health Psychology. Senior Researcher at INVALSI, she leads the International Surveys unit and coordinates Italy’s participation in IEA’s TIMSS, PIRLS, ICCS, and OECD’s PISA and TALIS. Her research focuses on equity in education, the relationship between reading and mathematics literacy, civic and citizenship education, and information literacy.
11/PAED-02
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Donatella Poliandri
Donatella Poliandri, PhD, is Senior Researcher and Head of the Innovation and Development Area at INVALSI. She has played a key role in the design and implementation of the National School Evaluation System (SNV) and leads competitive research projects at both national and international levels. Her work focuses on the development and testing of analytical tools and approaches to support schools’ self-evaluation and improvement processes, introducing methodological innovations to strengthen the evaluation of educational policies and pilot programmes. She is Vice-President of the Italian Evaluation Association (AIV).
14/GSPS-05/A, SPS/07–14/C1
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Cristina Stringher
Senior researcher at INVALSI, responsible for the ECEC sector and member of the inter-institutional group for preschool self-evaluation. Currently she serves as Italian representative in the OECD ECEC Network, has been member of the OECD Study on Social and Emotional Skills Advisory Board and invited expert by the EU Commission on ECEC indicators; key competencies; Learning to Learn.
PAED-02/B, 11/PAED-02
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