Postdoctoral Researchers
Dr Leire Pinedo
Dr Leire Pinedo is a Microsoft Postdoctoral Researcher. She leads a Microsoft-funded project exploring Irish teachers' use of GenAI in their teaching and assessment practices, and contributes to research on the impact of GenAI tools on student' self-assessment in higher education.
She holds BAs in Education and Psychology and a PhD in Education from the University of Deusto, where she was a member of the ERLA (Education, Regulated Learning & Assessment) research group. She has undertaken international research stays at the University of Antwerp, Utrecht University, the University of Auckland, and CRADLE at Deakin University.
A central focus of her current work is how AI is reshaping assessment; how teachers integrate GenAI into their teaching and assessment practices, and how students engage with these tools as they learn. This builds on her broader research, which uses assessment as a lens onto how students think, feel, and learn, spanning self-assessment, feedback processing, the use of rubrics, and the cognitive and affective processes underlying self-regulated learning. Methodologically, she aims to make visible what often remains hidden in assessment research, combining offline and online measures - self-report instruments, performance data, eye-tracking, electrodermal activity, and think-aloud protocols - to capture these processes as they unfold in real time.
Her work has been published in journals such as Learning and Instruction, Educational Psychology Review, and the European Journal of Psychology of Education. Her research interests and areas of expertise include AI in education and assessment, self-assessment, feedback, self-regulated learning, and multimodal research methods.