The course is aimed at acquiring the fundamental theoretical and methodological principles of the educational evaluation. The course aims, in particular, to master the concepts and procedures that characterize the assessment processes in the field of childcare services. The knowledge of the main monitoring techniques and the attribution of values ??(relative to some specific objects, such as school contexts, teaching practices, etc.) constitute essential training elements for the exercise of the professionalism of the educator (as well as the teachers, the pedagogical coordinators , etc). In particular, the course is aimed at the knowledge and understanding of:

. the paradigm of educational evaluation

· Functions, forms, timing of the evaluation

· Administration of detection instruments

· Reliability and validity of detection tools Measuring scales

· Measurement and evaluation

· Educational evaluation and formative evaluation

The course aims to address the main issues of assessment in education through the scientific paradigm of educational evaluation. After a first introduction of a more epistemological nature, concepts and methodological principles of formative evaluation will be introduced. Much space will be devoted to the analysis of concrete examples of monitoring tools for detection:

· The educational and didactic quality of school contexts;

. of the teaching practices of the teachers.

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Knowledge and understanding.

· Knowledge of the main lines of the epistemological debate in the context of the educational evaluation with particular reference to its constitutive elements (problems and methods);

· Ability to distinguish and compare the fundamental characteristics of the theoretical and methodological approaches of research in education. Applying knowledge and understanding. · Knowledge and understanding of the concepts and theories foreseen by the course; · Ability to recognize the fundamental stages of educational evaluation; · Ability to analyze the characteristics of some verification tools and their possible administration in schools and out of school. Making judgments. · Ability to identify suitable detection tools for the different objects and contexts of evaluation; Ability to administer a range of verification tools and to analyze the data collected with the aim of a valid and reliable evaluation; Communication skills. · Ability to read and interpret the results of surveys conducted in school and out of school; · Ability to build evaluation tools; ·

Ability to know how to communicate data relating to administrations with congruent tools. Ability to learn (learning skills). · Ability to use knowledge and concepts that allow to reason according to the specific logic of the evaluation; Ability to simulate administrations; · Ability to know how to envisage different research hypotheses depending on the evaluation objects to be monitored.

The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it

Textbooks supported by material distributed in the classroom and by material uploaded in blended learning. The teaching material and specific communications from the teacher can be found, together with other support activities, on the Moodle platform blended.uniurb.it

Teaching

The teaching will be structured on two weekly days. The meetings, depending on the topics covered, will be based on lectures (during which, in any case, the students will be called to reflect together with the teacher on specific knots of the discipline) and many workshop moments, during which the students will have the possibility to experiment and design evaluation tools.

Attendance

The course does not include any attendance obligation.

Course books

Volumes: Becchi E., Bondioli A., Ferrari M. (2002), The pedagogical design of the nest and its evaluation, Junior Editions, Bergamo.

Lazzari A. (edited by) (2016), A European framework for the quality of education and childcare services: proposal of key principles, ZeroSeiUp, Bergamo.

D'Ugo R., Lupi A. (2017), Evaluating the quality of schools and teachers in the Montessori method, ZeroSeiUp, Bergamo.

- Two essays:

D'Ugo R. (2018), The nest and the new typologies, in Cerrocchi L. and Dozza L. (edited by), Educational contexts for the social. Planning, professions and settings for individual and community well-being, FrancoAngeli, Milan, pp. 155-166.

D'Ugo R. (2020), Doing research between school and university, in D'Ugo R. and Marani G., Collaborative practices for school experimentation and innovation, FrancoAngeli, Milan, pp. 17-34.

Assessment

The expected objectives are verified through a written examination. The evaluation criteria are as follows: - relevance and effectiveness of the responses in relation to the contents of the program; - the level of articulation of the response; - adequacy of the disciplinary language used. Each of the criteria is assessed on the basis of a four-level scale of values ??/ judgments with equal weight assigned to each criterion. The final evaluation is expressed in thirtieths.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.

Teaching

Non-attending students are invited to consult the didactic material uploaded on Moodle (slides discussed in class, examples of educational investigations, types of detection tools, etc.) through which it will be possible to deepen the study of the volumes indicated in the section "Texts of study".

Attendance

The course does not include any attendance obligation.

Course books

Volumes: Becchi E., Bondioli A., Ferrari M. (2002), The pedagogical design of the nest and its evaluation, Junior Editions, Bergamo.

Lazzari A. (edited by) (2016), A European framework for the quality of education and childcare services: proposal of key principles, ZeroSeiUp, Bergamo.

D'Ugo R., Lupi A. (2017), Evaluating the quality of schools and teachers in the Montessori method, ZeroSeiUp, Bergamo.

- Two essays:

D'Ugo R. (2018), The nest and the new typologies, in Cerrocchi L. and Dozza L. (edited by), Educational contexts for the social. Planning, professions and settings for individual and community well-being, FrancoAngeli, Milan, pp. 155-166.

D'Ugo R. (2020), Doing research between school and university, in D'Ugo R. and Marani G., Collaborative practices for school experimentation and innovation, FrancoAngeli, Milan, pp. 17-34.

Assessment

The expected objectives are verified through a written examination. The evaluation criteria are as follows: - relevance and effectiveness of the responses in relation to the contents of the program; - the level of articulation of the response; - adequacy of the disciplinary language used. Each of the criteria is assessed on the basis of a four-level scale of values ??/ judgments with equal weight assigned to each criterion. The final evaluation is expressed in thirtieths.

Disability and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD)

Students who have registered their disability certification or SLD certification with the Inclusion and Right to Study Office can request to use conceptual maps (for keywords) during exams.

To this end, it is necessary to send the maps, two weeks before the exam date, to the course instructor, who will verify their compliance with the university guidelines and may request modifications.