Catalina Lomos is a researcher in education, who obtained a Research Master degree and a PhD degree from University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research has been performed within the framework of the school effectiveness and school improvement, with a focus on school and teacher learning processes and their relationships with student success. Her PhD work defined and measured comprehensibly the concept of Teacher Professional Community (PC/PLC) and related its functioning with student achievement level in secondary schools.

Main fields of research interest

• Digitalization in Education – digital learning platforms and student learning
• School effectiveness and school improvement research
• Teacher professional learning communities (PLCs) and student success
• Cross-cultural research and its methodological issues (theoretical relationships, measurement equivalence of latent concepts, etc)
• School-related predictors of student success, using the ICILS 2018 dataset
• Teachers’ use of ICT for teaching and learning in Luxembourg and across countries 

Key projects 

• MathemaTIC - students' and teachers' use of the digital learning platform in Luxembourg
• PLC fir MathemaTIC - teacher training program in Luxembourg for teachers working with digital learning tools and their experience with it
• User Experience for MathemaTIC - in-depth qualitative and user-experience investigation of MathemaTIC use 
• ICILS 2018 - International Computer and Information Literacy Study - National Research Coordinator (NRC) for Luxembourg
• ICILS 2023 - International Computer and Information Literacy Study - National Research Coordinator (NRC) for Luxembourg