Bengi Birgili is is a research assistant on the Mathematics Education Department at MEF University, Istanbul. She graduated with Bachelor of Science Degree in Primary Education (Program in Mathematics Education) from Bogazici University, Istanbul in 2011. After this, for her master’s thesis at METU, she researched differentiation of open-ended and multiple choice question types with regard to metacognitive and affective dimensions. Bengi is currently a PhD candidate on the Department of Educational Sciences Curriculum and Instruction Program at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara. She is also a participant on the team of academicians at MEF University who are developing the University within School Partnership Project with Ayazaga Middle School in Istanbul. In her role on this team, Bengi has been teaching mathematics to 5th and 6th grade students since 2014. In December 2016, she completed the Flipped Learning Level-I Certification Program offered by the Flipped Learning Global Initiative.

Instructional design, curriculum development and evaluation, qualitative research methods, phenomenology, differential effect of open-ended and multiple-choice questions, cooperative teaching method, new approaches in mathematics education.