MODELS OF PEDAGOGICAL DESIGN AND EDUCATIONAL POLICIES - EVALUATION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

Learning Objectives

• Pedagogical planning models and educational policies

  The aim of the course is to support students in acquiring useful tools to develop formative itineraries and network actions (especially in the context of the relationship between school and extra-school activities and of the coordination of projects and services in the territory), in developing appropriate skills in the planning of specific contexts in education, training and instruction and promoting methodologies which encourage participatory projects.

• Methods and techniques of Evaluation

  The aim of the course is to provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills required to assess students achievement and schools and teachers effectiveness.

Detailed Course Content

• Pedagogical planning models and educational policies

  Through itineraries of comparative studies, subjected to careful scrutiny of pedagogical criticism, the course will examine topics related to the theoretical foundations, the categories and the models that

  guide and direct the educational and training design. Methodological issues and problems related to education policy will be dealt with, with particular emphasis on evolutionary processes and motives in educational choices.

• Methods and techniques of Evaluation

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

  · development lines of docimology;

  · assessment of quality and effectiveness of schools and teachers (value added analysis);

  school self-evaluation activities.

Textbook Information

• Pedagogical planning models and educational policies

  1) Tomarchio M., Sapere scegliere apprendere, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno editore, 2009 (pp. 100);
  2) J. Dewey, Esperienza ed educazione, Milano, Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2014; (pp.85)
  3) Fabbri D., Munari A., Strategie del sapere, Milano, Guerini e Associati, 2005 (pp. 175);
  4) Leone L. - Prezza M., Costruire e valutare progetti nel sociale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2003 (da p. 9 a p. 152);
  5) Tomarchio M.- Ulivieri S. (a cura di), Pedagogia Militante. Diritti, culture, territori, Edizioni ETS, 2015 : Un contributo a scelta dello/a studente/essa tratto dalla Parte Prima "Diritti, culture, soggettività: frontiere pedagogiche e responsabilità educative"; Un contributo a scelta dello/a studente/essa tratto dalla Parte Seconda "Culture, marginalità, processi formativi" (Complessive pp. 30 c.a)

• Methods and techniques of Evaluation

  J. Dewey, Theory of Valuation, Chicago, 1939, tr. it. Teoria della valutazione, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1960 (pdf will be provided))

  F. Batini, C. Corsini, Insegnare e valutare per competenze, in "Insegnare e valutare per competenze", pp. 79-98, Loescher, Torino 2016

  G. Benvenuto, Mettere i voti a scuola, Carocci, Roma, 2003

  C. Corsini, Valutare scuole e docenti, Nuova Cultura, Roma 2014