Phd in SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL
RESEARCH

email: anna.salerni@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649917286
building: Villa Mirafiori, Via Carlo Fea 2
room: 113a (I piano)

His current research and study interests concern both the relationship between the university and the world of work and the professions from a didactic-training perspective and orientation for the school-university transition world of work and the professions. Specifically, in recent years it has investigated the institution of training and university internship as a reflective practice and as a training and work-oriented activity, also focusing on the training of business tutors as facilitators of learning of trainees in training. Alongside research activities related to the monitoring of university internship activity in the pedagogical degree courses of "Sapienza", she has been involved in intensifying relations with companies for more targeted training in educational professions consistent with the university training path. In fact, its studies have as their object the professional outlets, contexts of intervention and training of the various professional figures required in the educational field.
Previously, the areas on which he has focused his studies and research activities are, on the one hand, language education-particularly problems related to reading comprehension, lexical competence, and the production of written texts-and, on the other hand, citizenship education-particularly the topic of education for human rights and the possession of the key competencies necessary for participation and social cohesion.
In these contexts, his study and research activities have focused mainly on process and product measurement and evaluation in school and out-of-school settings (in-presence and distance). In this area of study, she has, in addition, specialized in the definition, construction and validation of survey instruments of various kinds: from objective profit tests to questionnaires on background variables, attitude and evaluation tests, and interviews.
She has participated in numerous national and international researches [IEA/SAL, IEA Civic Education, OECD/PISA, researches commissioned by MIUR, the Regional Institutes for Educational Research, Experimentation and Updating (formerly IRRE), CEDE-INVALSI] dealing, in particular, with the construction and revision of survey instruments and the training of surveyors as well as the analysis and interpretation of results.
Since the beginning of his career, he has been involved in training, and over the years he has organized and held refresher and training courses, in-person and distance learning, aimed at trainers, social and health workers in various agencies and teachers in training (currently in TFA pathways with the module of "Didactics and Methodology") and in service in different school and training orders (Initial and specialized vocational training).

He has published monographs, volume essays and articles in national and international journals on these topics.

Research topics
Experiential learning and reflective strategies
orientation to work and occupations
University traineeships
Narrative approach in training for work and professions
Intergenerational Education
Educational Professions
Workplace learning