Fuensanta Hernandez Pina is professor of Research Methods and Assessment in Education at Universidad de Murcia, Spain and Head of Departament of Métodos de Investigación y Diagnótico en Educación (Research Methods and Assessment in Education), Universidad de Murcia, Spain.
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She doctorated from the Universidad de Valencia (Spain) in 1977 with the topic: Spanish Child Language Adquisition (published) - Teorías Psicosociolingüisticas y su
aplicación a la adquisición del español como lengua materna. Madrid: Siglo XXI
(1984).
1. Current Teaching Interests
Course, workshops and seminars on educational research, student assessment,
student learning in higher education, teaching in higher education, evaluation and
quality assurance.
2. Current Research Interest
Quality of teaching and learning in Higher Education, skills and competences, learning
style, approaches to learning and teaching, self-regulated learning, conception of
teaching and learning, institutional evaluation and innovative education in higher
education, and child language acquisition.
3. PublicationsOver 100 publications including books, book chapters and articles related to language acquisition, approaches to learning, self-regulated learning, learning styles, assessment centres, programmes and learning, research methodology, data
analysis, quality, competences, EFQM model, etc.