Rebecca Marrone

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence Creativity Educational Psychology

Dr Rebecca Marrone

Lecturer

School of Education

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Dr Rebecca Marrone is a Lecturer: Learning Sciences and Development for the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) at UniSA Education Futures. She has a background in Educational Psychology, and her research is primarily in the fields of creativity, wellbeing, and human and artificial cognition. More specifically, Rebecca researches the impact of technology on wellbeing with a particular emphasis on how AI impacts teacher and student wellbeing.

Date Position Institution name
2023 - ongoing Senior Lecturer Learning Sciences and Development University of South Australia

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2019 Fellowship Best Speaker Award Marconi Institute for Creativity Laboratori Guglielmo Marconi (Italy) Italy -

Date Institution name Country Title
2017 - 2020 University of South Australia Australia Doctorate of Philosophy
2013 - 2016 University of South Australia Australia Bachelor of Psychology (Honours)

Year Citation
2025 Medeiros, K., Cropley, D. H., Marrone, R. L., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2025). Human-AI Co-Creativity: Does ChatGPT Make Us More Creative?. Journal of Creative Behavior, 59(2), 10 pages.
DOI Scopus5 WoS5
2025 Marrone, R., Zamecnik, A., Joksimovic, S., Johnson, J., & De Laat, M. (2025). Understanding Student Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence as a Teammate. Technology Knowledge and Learning, 30(3), 1847-1869.
DOI Scopus10 WoS7
2025 Gabriel, F., Kennedy, J. P., Marrone, R., & Leonard, S. (2025). Pragmatic AI in education and its role in mathematics learning and teaching. Npj Science of Learning, 10(1), 7 pages.
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2025 Cropley, D. H., Theurer, C., Mathijssen, A. C. S., & Marrone, R. L. (2025). Fit-For-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic Scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking–Drawing Production (TCT-DP). Creativity Research Journal, 37(4), 539-554.
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2025 Whitehorn, M., Kovanović, V., Marrone, R., & Dawson, S. (2025). Creative Thinking and Non-Cognitive Factors in Science: Implications for Diversity in STEM Subjects. Creativity Research Journal, online, 15 pages.
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2025 Barthakur, A., Marrone, R., Esnaashari, S., Kovanovic, V., & Dawson, S. (2025). Advancing Holistic Decision-Making Systems in Schools: Insights From Academic Research and Practical Applications. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 41(3), 13 pages.
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2025 Korolkiewicz, M., Fewster Young, N., Marmolejo Ramos, F., Gabriel, F., Kariuki, P., Puga, J. L., . . . Garcia, A. M. R. R. (2025). Fear of the unknown: relationship between statistics anxiety and attitudes toward statistics of university students in three countries. Teaching Statistics, 47(1), 17-38.
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2025 Marrone, R., Fowler, S., Bathakur, A., Dawson, S., Siemens, G., & Singh, C. (2025). Perceptions and perspectives of Australian school leaders on the integration of artificial intelligence in schools. School Leadership & Management, 45(1), 30-52.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1
2025 Mirriahi, N., Marrone, R., Barthakur, A., Gabriel, F., Colton, J., Yeung, T. N., . . . Kovanovic, V. (2025). The relationship between students' self-regulated learning skills and technology acceptance of GenAI. AUSTRALASIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, 41(2), 16-33.
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2025 Marmolejo Ramos, F., Marrone, R., Korolkiewicz, M., Gabriel, F., Siemens, G., Joksimovic, S., & Tejada, J. (2025). Factors influencing trust in algorithmic decision-making: an indirect scenario-based experiment. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 7(1465605.), 1-16.
DOI Scopus8 WoS6
2025 Vieira, M. F., Cropley, D., Marrone, R., & Singh, C. (2025). Bridging the Gender Gap in STEM: The Impact of Self-Beliefs on Domain-Specific Creativity among Secondary Students. Thinking Skills and Creativity, online, 15 pages.
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2025 Brinkman, S. A., Lam, B., Dawson, S., Marrone, R., Schunk, D., Winkel, K., . . . Engelhardt, D. (2025). Pragmatic clustered randomised control trial to evaluate a self-regulated learning intervention to be implemented in South Australian primary schools—study protocol. Trials, 26(1), 12 pages.
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2024 Marrone, R., Lam, B., Barthakur, A., Brinkman, S., Dawson, S., & Gabriel, F. (2024). The Relationship between Wellbeing and Academic Achievement: A Comprehensive Cross-Sectional Analysis of System Wide Data From 2016-2019. Journal of Learning Analytics, 11(3), 123-141.
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2024 Marrone, R., Cropley, D., & Medeiros, K. (2024). How Does Narrow AI Impact Human Creativity?. Creativity Research Journal, online, 11 pages.
DOI Scopus21 WoS15
2023 Fowler, S., Korolkiewicz, M., & Marrone, R. (2023). First 100 days of ChatGPT at Australian Universities An analysis of policy landscape and media discussions about the role of AI in Higher Education. Journal of Learning Letters, 1(1), 1-8.
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2023 Marrone, R., Cropley, D. H., & Wang, Z. (2023). Automatic Assessment of Mathematical Creativity using Natural Language Processing. Creativity Research Journal, 35(4), 661-676.
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2023 Arango Uribe, M. L., Barrera Causil, C. J., Pallares, V., Rojas, J. M., Mercado Díaz, L. R., Marrone, R., & Marmolejo Ramos, F. (2023). Statistical modelling of the impact of online courses in higher education on sustainable development. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 24(2), 404-425.
DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2023 Joksimovic, S., Ifenthaler, D., Marrone, R., De Laat, M., & Siemens, G. (2023). Opportunities of artificial intelligence for supporting complex problem-solving: Findings from a scoping review. Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence, 4(100138), 1-12.
DOI Scopus108
2022 Baird, S., Marrone, R., & Gabriel, F. (2022). Addressing maths anxiety in primary school: a case study. Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 27(3), 27-30.
2022 Marrone, R., Taddeo, V., & Hill, G. (2022). Creativity and artificial intelligence-a student perspective. Journal of Intelligence, 10(3, article no. 65), 1-11.
DOI Scopus106 WoS60 Europe PMC7
2022 Marmolejo-Ramos, F., Gabriel, F., Kariuki, P., Ruiz-Ruano, A. M., Marrone, R. L., Miles, A., . . . Puga, J. L. (2022). Investigating the relationship between statistics anxiety and attitudes towards statistics in three countries.
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2022 Siemens, G., Marmolejo Ramos, F., Gabriel, F., Medeiros, K., Marrone, R., Joksimovic, S., & de Laat, M. (2022). Human and artificial cognition. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence, 3(100107), 1-9.
DOI Scopus88
2022 Gabriel, F., Marrone, R., Van Sebille, Y., Kovanovic, V., & de Laat, M. (2022). Digital education strategies around the world: practices and policies. Irish Educational Studies, 41(1), 85-106.
DOI Scopus57 WoS27
2022 Cropley, D. H., & Marrone, R. L. (2022). Automated Scoring of Figural Creativity Using a Convolutional Neural Network. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, 19(1), 77-86.
DOI Scopus41 WoS33
2022 Markauskaite, L., Marrone, R., Poquet, O., Knight, S., Martinez-Maldonado, R., Howard, S., . . . Siemens, G. (2022). Rethinking the entwinement between artificial intelligence and human learning: What capabilities do learners need for a world with AI?. Computers and Education Artificial Intelligence, 3(100056), 1-16.
DOI Scopus290
2021 Patston, T. J., Kaufman, J. C., Cropley, A. J., & Marrone, R. (2021). What Is Creativity in Education? A Qualitative Study of International Curricula. Journal of Advanced Academics, 32(2), 207-230.
DOI Scopus83 WoS61
2020 Tubb, A., Cropley, D. H., Marrone, R. L., Patston, T., & Kaufman, J. C. (2020). The development of mathematical creativity across high school: increasing, decreasing, or both?. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 35(article no. 100634), 1-13.
DOI Scopus33 WoS23
2019 Cropley, D. H., Patston, T., Marrone, R. L., & Kaufman, J. C. (2019). Essential, unexceptional and universal: teacher implicit beliefs of creativity. Thinking skills and creativity, 34(100604), 1-11.
DOI Scopus26 WoS20
2018 Patston, T. J., Cropley, D. H., Marrone, R. L., & Kaufman, J. C. (2018). Teacher implicit beliefs of creativity: Is there an arts bias?. Teaching and Teacher Education, 75, 366-374.
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2017 Patston, T., Cropley, D. H., Marrone, R. L., & Kaufman, J. C. (2017). Teacher self-concepts of creativity: meeting the challenges of the 21st century classroom. International journal of creativity and problem solving, 27(2), 23-34.

Year Citation
2025 Cropley, D. H., Marrone, R., Medeiros, K., & van Broekhoven, K. (2025). Creative products and artificial intelligence. In D. H. Cropley (Ed.), Source details - Title: Creations: The Nature of Creative Products in the 21st Century (pp. 33-59). Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan.
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2024 Joksimovic, S., Marrone, R., & Vieira, M. (2024). Experiential learning for the betterment of education. In A. Pepe (Ed.), Source details - Title: Beyond Broken: Different Systems for Different Futures (pp. 224-231). Australia: (MOD) University of South Australia.
2024 Barthakur, A., Marrone, R., Esnaashari, S., Kovanovic, V., & Dawson, S. (2024). A Systematic Review of Studies on Decision-Making Systems for Teaching and Learning in K-12. In R. F. Mello, N. Rummel, I. Jivet, G. Pishtari, & J. A. R. Valiente (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Vol. 15159 LNCS, pp. 49-63). Austria: SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG.
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2023 Gabriel, F., Marrone, R., & van Broekhoven, K. (2023). Teaching and learning for creativity in science and mathematics. In R. Reiter-Palmon, & S. Hunter (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Leadership, Interventions, and Macro Level Issues (pp. 393-405). UK: Academic Press.
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2023 Medeiros, K. E., Marrone, R. L., Joksimovic, S., Cropley, D. H., & Siemens, G. (2023). Promises and realities of artificial creativity. In R. Reiter-Palmon, & S. Hunter (Eds.), Source details - Title: Handbook of Organizational Creativity: Leadership, Interventions, and Macro Level Issues (2nd ed., pp. 275-289). San Diego: Academic Press.
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2022 Marrone, R. L., & Cropley, D. H. (2022). The role of learning analytics in developing creativity. In Y. E. Wang (Ed.), Source details - Title: Social and Emotional Learning and Complex Skills Assessment: An Inclusive Learning Analytics Perspective (pp. 75-91). Switzerland: Springer.
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Year Citation
2025 Cropley, D., Marrone, R., & Vieira, M. (2025). Future Directions in Classroom Creativity Assessment: Gen AI and Fitness-for-Purpose.
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2024 Medieros, K., Cropley, D., Marrone, R., & Reiter-Palmon, R. (2024). Human-AI Co-Creativity: Does ChatGPT make us more creative?.
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2024 Vieira, M., Cropley, D., Marrone, R., & Singh, C. (2024). Bridging the Gender Gap in STEM: The Impact of Self-Beliefs on Domain-Specific Creativity among Secondary Students.
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2023 Cropley, D., Theurer, C., Mathijssen, S., & Marrone, R. (2023). Fit-for-Purpose Creativity Assessment: Automatic scoring of the Test of Creative Thinking - Drawing Production (TCT-DP).
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  • Self Regulated Learning RCT, Department for Education, 19/06/2023 - 31/12/2029

  • Extending workplace learning through a Univeristy-school partnership., Pulteney Grammar School, 22/02/2024 - 21/02/2027

  • Rapid Response Evidence Review – Civics and Citizenship, Department for Education, 14/04/2025 - 14/07/2025

  • Rapid Response Evidence Review + extension , Department for Education, 01/07/2024 - 30/06/2025

  • Self Regulation Measurement, Department for Education, 07/06/2023 - 06/06/2024

  • Improving Student Outcomes: Exploring the Diagnostic Value of WEC Items in Education, Department for Education, 13/11/2023 - 29/02/2024

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor - - Doctorate Full Time Ms Ebony Proud
2025 Co-Supervisor - - Doctorate Full Time Mr Nicholas Peter Pattison
2024 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Omar Alajlan
2024 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Qianhong Zeng
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr David Randall
2022 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Zhengzheng Wang

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