Università Roma Tre

To develop the following knowledge, skills and competences in the students: to link the development of didactic-educational research with social dynamics; to distinguish the formal characteristics of experimental research from those of non-experimental research and qualitative research from quantitative research; to know and adequately use measurement scales and data collection tools; to collect, process and represent data; to link problems, hypotheses, investigation procedures and data collection (and processing) tools; to build and use checklists, questionnaires, interviews, structured and semi-structured tests, systematic observation grids, as well as to design and develop some empirical tools for data collection in simulated contexts; to formulate the null hypothesis and the alternative hypothesis in specific research contexts; to know the logical meaning of the most important parametric and non-parametric statistical tests.