Università Roma Tre

The course has the general objective of describing the main methodological research lines in education and to facilitate the knowledge about building and use of the main tools useful to collect data.
Specific objectives carried out during the course are the following:
- reflect on the main characteristics of the educational lexicon;
- define the main methodological approaches in educational research;
- design and project hypotheses in educational research
- reflect on changes which have an impact on assessment research
- classify evaluation tools, useful to carry out research in educational settings;
- define the relationship between teaching and learning and assessment;
- identify assessment elements and functions
- build objective tests
- analyse data collected through assessment tests;
- revise different test types
The course is structured in the following way:
a theoretical course
an online workshop
The final exam is an evaluation of all the parts of the course. The first session useful to do the exam is the winter session.
The course main objective is to illustrate and define the main lines of educational research and to provide the principal evaluation tools.
Lecturing is based on active participation of the sudents, providing interactive situation studies and using new technologies. In particular, an activity to create OERs for cross sectional competencens development in the framework of heritage fruition with in primary school level teaching and learning will be offered.
The online workshop is related to J. J. Rousseau’s “Emile, or On Education” and it is accessible at the formonline platform.

- Poce A., Cultural Heritage and the Development of XXI Century Skills in Primary Education, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2018.
- Poce A., Tecnologia Critica, Creatività e Didattica della Scienza, Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2015.
- Materiali resi disponibili durante il corso