EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Academic Year 2016/2017 - 3° Year - Curriculum Unico
Teaching Staff: Cristiano CORSINI
Credit Value: 10
Taught classes: 60 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

The aim of the course is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills required to design, put into practice and evaluate educational researches.


Detailed Course Content

The course will focus on Educational Assessment and more specifically on the following key topics:

1) development lines, theoretical framework and methods of empirical research in education;

2) design of empirical research in education: problem, hypothesis, experiment, observation, conclusion (hands-on practical assignments).


Textbook Information

P. Lucisano, A. Salerni, Metodologia della ricerca in educazione e formazione, Carocci, Roma, 2003.

J. Dewey, Unity of science as social problem, in Neurath O., Carnap R., Morris C. (a cura di), Fondations of the unity of science. Toward an international encyclopedia of Unified science, University of Chicago Press, Chicago-London, 1939, trad. it. in Lucisano P., L’unità della scienza come problema sociale, “Cadmo”, n. 22, pp. 30-35 download.

C. Corsini, I.D.M. Scierri, Differenze di genere nell’editoria scolastica, Nuova Cultura, Roma, 2016.