Università Roma Tre

Space and time. What is education? Interactions between man and nature. Nature, naturalism, naturalism. Education and education. The Italian population: statistical references (1861-1981). Birth trends, average life span. Distribution by sex of the students enrolled in the different school cycles. Training. Personality: affective and cognitive aspects. Attitude, ability, dowry. Socialisation. Method, strategy, procedure. Program, programming. Support, evaluation and verification. Evaluation: psychology, sociology and didactics. Validity and reliability of measurements. Functions and objects of evaluation. The evaluation of profit. Central trend measures. The measure of dispersion. Standardised scores. Criteria and methods of educational intervention. Characteristics of the students. Equality of educational opportunities. Learning outcomes. Quantitative analysis of school productivity.