DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
Master's Degree in Pedagogical sciences and educational planning
Academic Year 2020/2021 - 1° Year - Educational and training agencies Curriculum and Territorial educational services and sustainable development Curriculum

MODELS OF PEDAGOGICAL DESIGN AND EDUCATIONAL POLICIES - EVALUATION METHODS AND TECHNIQUES

Teaching Staff

Learning Objectives

• Pedagogical planning models and educational policies
  

  The aim of the course is to support students in acquiring theoretical and methodological tools in order to

  1) plan, develop and evaluate education projects, learning process and educational interventions

  with specific reference to the relationship between curricular and extra-curricular activities together with the coordination of projects within the local community/context;

  2) develop appropriate skills for planning, coordination, evaluation of specific interventions within educational, re-educational and rehabilitation contexts with the aim of promoting specific methodologies which encourage participatory projects.

• METODI E TECNICHE DI VALUTAZIONE
  

  The course aims to provide theoretical knowledge and methodological skills aimed at assessing the characteristics of educational contexts and the effectiveness of training processes. Students at the end of the course will have to know the main approaches and evaluation models, the techniques and tools suitable for assessing knowledge, skills and competences.

Course Structure

• Pedagogical planning models and educational policies
  

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

   

  traditional lessons and workshops. All learning activities are not intended to serve as assessment activity for the final grade

• METODI E TECNICHE DI VALUTAZIONE
  

  Lessons will be conducted favoring active learning methods with collaborative activities in pairs and in groups, collective discussions, exercises and formative evaluation activities.

  Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus.

Detailed Course Content

• Pedagogical planning models and educational policies
  

  Through a critical pedagogical and comparative analysis, the aim of the course is to investigate and explore topics related to the theoretical foundations, the epistemological models and the main practises that inform the planning and the design of educational interventions. This course covers topics such as epistemological and methodological issues for educational planning, educational policy issues with specific reference to development processes and motives driving the educational choices

• METODI E TECNICHE DI VALUTAZIONE
  

  1. History and epistemology of educational evaluation

  2. Evaluation of educational and didactic processes (with particular attention to the evaluation of the same teaching materials), learning outcomes (also in non-formal and informal contexts) and competences

  3. Evaluation methods and tools (quantitative-experimental, qualitative-hermeneutical and mixed)

  4. System evaluation and quality assurance

Textbook Information

• Pedagogical planning models and educational policies
  

  1) Tomarchio M., Sapere scegliere apprendere, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno editore, 2009 (p. 100);
  2) Traverso A. , Metodologia della progettazione educativa. Competenza, strumenti e contesti, Roma, Carocci, 2016 (pp.170)
  3) Leone L. - Prezza M., Costruire e valutare progetti nel sociale, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2003 (da p. 9 a p. 130);

  4) Tomarchio M., La Rosa V., Sicilia/Europa. Culture in dialogo, memoria operante, processi formativi, Aracne, 2014 (parte I e parte III).

• METODI E TECNICHE DI VALUTAZIONE
  

  Montalbetti, K. (2011). Manuale per la valutazione delle pratiche formative. Metodi, dispositivi e strumenti. Vita e Pensiero. (112)

  Grion, V., Aquario, D., Restiglian, E. (2019). Valutare nella scuola e nei contesti educativi.Cleup. (282)

  D'Ugo, R., & Vannini, I. (2015). PraDISI. La valutazione formativa delle Prassi Didattiche dell’Insegnante di Scuola dell’Infanzia: osservare per riprogettare. FrancoAngeli. (87)

  Zaggia, C. (2019). La valutazione dei servizi educativi. Verso un modello integrato di qualità gestionale, sociale e ambientale. Pensa Multimedia. (259)

  Supplementary articles provided by the teacher.