Ilona Friso-van den Bos obtained her MSc degree in Development and Socialisation in Childhood and Adolescence in 2009, and has almost finished her PhD in Educational and Learning Sciences at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her PhD project was part of an Interlinked Research Project in which several Dutch universities collaborated, and focused on the interrelations between number sense, mathematics achievement, and working memory in kindergartners and children in the first two years of primary school.
As a postdoctoral researcher, she is involved in Formative Assessment in multiplication learning, and the effects of a serious game to facilitate mathematics achievement of students in vocational education.