The goals are based on the descriptors of Dublin:
1. Knowledge and understanding: Know and understand orientation between theories and methods of school planning and assessment;
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: Know how to define and evaluate the different application of school planning and assessment methods;
3. Making judgments: Know how to build a design path and appropriate tests;
4. Communication skills: know how to design project paths adapted to school contexts;
5. Learning Skills: Know how to build a learning path and know how to build learning tests.
The training objectives contribute to develop the professional skills foreseen by the area 3. Educational interaction of the S3PI Model adopted by the Degree Program
The course intends to reach the following objectives: to promote planning skills for learning processes with primary school pupils, be aware of planning phases, be able to use quantitative and qualitative instruments for learning assessment and evaluation, construct and use means of measurement for learning assessment
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the structure of the actual school system and the explicit curriculum of primary school (Indicazioni Nazionali, 2012)
Teaching Methods
Lectures, simulations and group discussions
Group works on the text in English
Type of Assessment
Written exam: quetions with open answers and multiple choice
Test time: 60 min.
During the course will be carried out tests to prepare students to the final exam
Course program
The contents of the course will be focused on: planning and evaluation approaches, curricular theories, models of school planning, effects and objects of evaluation, self-assessment, assessment validity, quantitative and qualitative procedures and technique of evaluation.
Suggested readings
D. Capperucci, C. Cartei, Curricolo e intercultura. Problemi, metodi e strumenti, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2010.
D. Capperucci (a cura di), La valutazione degli apprendimenti in ambito scolastico, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2011.
D. Capperucci, La scuola in Europa, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2014.
D. Capperucci, M. Piccioli, L’insegnante di scuola primaria. Identità, competenze e profilo professionale, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2015;
D. Capperucci, E. Guerin (Eds.), Innovative European Approaches for In-service and Pre-service English Language Teachers in Primary Education: Theory and Practice, ETS, Pisa, 2017.
Further information
Course books are the same for attending and not attending students
Part of the course will be hold in English (2 credits)
No extramaterials are provided.
The Laboratory connected to the course will propose design and teaching experiences in class starting from the UCD Mod model, with particular reference to the teaching of the reading in primary school