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In Italy, speech therapy was usually conducted almost exclusively face-to-face until the spread of Coronavirus and the subsequent lockdown period. The sudden pandemic crisis profoundly changed speech language pathologists' activity and strongly encouraged the spread of telepractice, which is still widely used today. The use of a remote modality of treatment needs specific guidelines in order to identify appropriate tools and procedures. One example is the recent set of guidelines for telemedicine services approved by the Ministry of Health (2022). In this paper, valuable instructions useful for the remote approach have been collected for speech assessment, with reference to the long experience of the international scientific community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper focuses on how universities responded to the disruption in learning of the Covid-cohort, focusing specifically on the introduction of ‘no detriment’ policies or ‘safety nets’, and the assessment changes that materialised in its wake. Universities were required to act quickly in adapting their teaching, learning and assessment practices to suit unprecedented circumstances which saw wide-spread campus closures and face-to-face teaching replaced with online delivery. Most universities sought to ensure that assessments could go ahead, albeit under very different circumstances, which required changes to the ways in which students were assessed and the extent to which their grades would affect their overall results. Throughout this period of change, universities had to carefully balance the interests of the students with the university’s regulatory obligations to maintain academic standards. This paper sets out some of the challenges faced by universities, and Law Schools in particular, and explores how universities responded to these challenges. It then considers what actions could be taken relating to assessment in Law Schools in light of the longer-term effects of the Covid pandemic

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This paper illustrates the recommendations of a Working Group (WG) on the assessment of drugs innovativeness and the negotiation of price and reimbursement. The WG included researchers, institutions, clinicians, patient representatives and pharmaceutical companies. The first part of the contribution summarizes the literature on drug pricing models, which was considered in the WG, and, in particular, the pricing criteria, the evaluation and negotiation processes, the management of the uncertainty of the evidence, the use of cross-reference pricing and price negotiation for new indications of existing drugs. The second part illustrates the results of the WG with a focus on innovativeness assessment, value framework and price negotiation. The main recommendations of the WG are: to define more specific criteria for the identification of comparators and endpoints for macro therapeutic areas/settings; to produce guidelines on the use of indirect comparisons and studies supporting this evidence; to consider the drug value as the main driver of price and reimbursement negotiation; to maintain flexibility in the negotiation process, but, at the same time, to give greater structure and predictability in the assessment of value for money, with a more qualified role of cost-effectiveness and a range of threshold values for the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio; to selectively reintroduce Managed Entry Agreements and the Indication-based pricing model; to implement an early dialogue between the Italian Medicine Agency and the pharmaceutical companies in order to optimize the negotiation process, and a structured involvement of scientific societies and patient representatives.

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As educational institutions increase attention toward the preparation of future citizen leaders, the assessment of the efficacy of these interventions must increase in sophistication as well. Socially responsible leadership, and the social change model of leadership development from which it is derived, are among the most applied conceptual frameworks informing leadership education. Educational gains associated with this approach are typically assessed using the «Socially Responsible Leadership Scale» (SRLS), an instrument that has been used widely in educational research in the United States. This paper extends the psychometric understanding of the SRLS using findings from the Multi-Institutional Study of Leadership (MSL), an international research program examining developmental and educational influences on socially responsible leadership. To date, MSL has collected data in five countries at over 300 institutions of higher education with over 300,000 participants. Implications from this paper explore how the psychometric rigor of the SRLS can continue to evolve as well as considerations for the theoretical evolution of the social change model and socially responsible leadership.

This paper investigates to what extent the educational system and school results can be used to promote self-assessment processes designed to improve pupils' performances. It present the design, structure and frameworks used in the National Evaluation Service mathematics tests for primary school developed by INVALSI. The objective of this study is to highlight the strengths and weaknesses related to data processing and reporting, so as to increase the validity and reliability of the assessment procedures and tests. The results of this evidence-based research can be used by schools for formative assessment and to redefine the effectiveness of their teaching practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A Language Competence Test on Exiting Vocational Training Programmes This paper illustrates the methodology adopted to design and calibrate a test for measuring students’ language skills at the end of the third year of vocational training courses (10th grade). The work is part of a major ISFOL study also including tests on math and strategic abilities. The test is calibrated on a judgement sample of 1046 students. It measures listening, reading comprehension, proper use of language and written composition through several tasks. This paper presents methodologies of two item analysis procedures the CTT (Classical Test Theory) and IRT (Item Response Theory) and the procedures for designing variables derived from different tasks. In particular, it presents the advantages of using the Rasch model, which is adopted for a better measuring of the latent trait «ability» and for calibrating item measures. At the end of the paper, the main results of the multivariate analysis are briefly presented. They need to be read and interpreted taking into account the characteristics of the population, its social and cultural background, which is weak in this case, and the collection of its school failures, characterizing these students’ experience.

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Since the beginning of the 21st century, the promotion of an education that leads to the development of competences (European Commission, 2007; Perrenoud, 1999) has been a main concern of Portuguese education policies (Ministério da Educação, 2001; Reis, 2009). Higher Education has also embraced this concern through the implementation of the Bologna propositions. The Department of Education of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) has been working along these lines since 2007. This paper describes a study which is being conducted within a first cycle degree in a course relating the issues of education in the mother tongue to the training students are concurrently receiving in educational institutions. Three research questions were defined: i) Is it possible to design teaching strategies in Higher Education leading to the development of competences that allow the students to adapt to a greater variety of educational contexts? ii) Can these strategies promote an awareness of the need to approach education in the mother tongue in a transversal way, taking into account its importance for success at school and socio-professional integration? iii) Which role can feedback assessment play in this process? This paper deals with the third question. We analysed data concerning i) the performance of the students corresponding to their grades and ii) their conceptions, gathered in the individual essays they wrote, containing their critical views about the work they developed. The results of this analysis (mixing statistics and content analysis) stressed the need to introduce changes in the course programme and in the assessment methods it proposes. Assessment feedback appeared as a key element.

Assessment and validation are crucial to support learning experiences. In this paper the focus is on the VET system (Vocational Education and Training), which represents an important node in the training of young people in Europe. Within the theoretical framework, in the specific evidence of the passage from a school-based learning to a work-based learning, we will start a reflection on some assessment and validation practices implemented in Europe, within the AppSkill+ work, an Erasmus+ project aimed at developing and testing an app-based tool dedicated to the evaluation and validation, highlighting circularity, triangulation, continuous assessment and digitalization of the processes. Pratiche di valutazione e validazione nel sistema di Istruzione e Formazione Professionale: un'app per studenti e professionisti. Il tema della valutazione e della validazione sono centrali per supportare le esperienze di apprendimento. Nel presente contributo il focus è sul sistema VET (Vocational Education and Training), che rappresenta per l’Europa un nodo importante nella formazione dei ragazzi e delle ragazze. A partire dal quadro teorico, nella specifica evidenziazione del passaggio da un apprendimento basato sul contesto della scuola a un apprendimento work-based, si proverà a riflettere su alcune pratiche di valutazione e validazione attivate in Europa, nell’ambito di AppSkill+, un progetto Erasmus+ finalizzato allo sviluppo e alla sperimentazione di una app dedicata alla valutazione e alla validazione, facendo leva su circolarità, triangolazione, valutazione continua e digitalizzazione dei processi.

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Abstract This paper discusses the adaptation of the iPIPS assessment for use in research with Brazilian children between the ages of four and seven. It debates the importance of having a baseline measure to assess early childhood education policy as well as the advantages of collecting high-quality information about children’s development. Not knowing how children are progressing could harm disadvantaged children and increase school inequality. The data used in the analysis was based on the pre-test of the iPIPS 2016 for mathematics and language in a total of 560 cases collected in three Brazilian cities. The preliminary analyses indicate that the items of both tests present adequate behavior, suggesting the theoretical adequacy of the items and a good adaptation and application protocol.

Despite the common practice and the regulatory requirements related to the urban planning of our cities continues to define environmental quality through compliance with urban planning codes, the inadequacy of this parameter is increasingly evident. For this reason, numerous urban regeneration programs, and above all urban sustainability assessment standards, evaluate the environmental sustainability levels and livability, as if they were a project indicator. The paper describes the most consolidated indicators and proposes the use of the livability indicator of the public space promoted by the Urban Ecology Agency of Barcelona with some modifications that make it more consistent with the Milanese and Italian context.

The present paper outlines a research-training process carried out with a sample of primary and lower secondary school teachers aimed at assessing the key competence of citizenship learning to learn. For this purpose, an assessment model was developed called KC-ARCA Model (Key Competences - Assessment, Rubrics, Certification of Achievement Model) which was tested in an exploratory way within the schools involved in the research. The research-training group identified the competence of learning to learn as a sort of “core competence” able to develop learning and effective behaviours in several fields of action and study.

This paper moves from an educational evaluation research conducted in the on the Nursery Degree Programme of Bologna University. Starting from the analysis of transversal competences that are crucial for nurses and from the outcomes of a qualitative exploratory phase of the research, this contribution is focused on the assessment of students’ learning strategies, at the beginning and at the end of the degree programme. Such assessment has been conducted through the application of «Learning Strategies Questionnaire QSA», validated from Pellerey in 1996 to 168 students at the first and last year (160 students) of the Nursery Degree Programme. In the meanwhile the questionnaire has been proposed to almost 100 first year University students from other degree programmes and 390 Secondary School’s students. Thanks to this second and third sample, results could be compared with the standard group through which the questionnaire was validated in 1996 and with other students attending University and Secondary School nowadays. The results put into evidence a certain urgency in reflecting on learning strategies proficiency for students in the last 20 years: in fact the scores of University students now do not appear so far from the results of the students aged 15 in 1996.

This paper examines the relationship between language teachers and the errors made by their students. Traditionally, errors reflect a deviation from a standard, which is a described or imagined standard form of linguistic behavior, and teachers are the repositories of that standard. Errors also provide insights into processes of language acquisition, and offer teachers convenient strategies for classroom intervention. The appearance of contrastive analysis in the 1960s, the brief ascendancy of error analysis, and the ensuing development of inter-language studies, kept the focus firmly on the learner’s distance from native speaker competences, and the teacher’s role to bring students as far as possible towards a native-speaker like use. With the appearance of the Common European Framework of Reference the focus shifted from learner error to learner competence. Nonetheless, a standard form of the language continued to provide the target in coursebooks, and an ostensibly communicative approach continued to be the vehicle for a grammatical syllabus. But recently further challenges have been posed by the growth of English Lingua Franca (ELF) and the awareness that most interactions in English are now between non native speakers (NNSs). ELF research shows that success in NNS interaction does not come from approximating native speaker norms, but rather from a range of collaborative strategies. In this context, teachers and testers will increasingly have to redefine the notion of “error” in the language classroom, an operation which is likely to entail a painful paradigm shift.

The concept of entrepreneurial competencies is complex, comprising components that can be acquired and changed through experience, training and education (Man, Lau & Chan, 2002). The relevance of such competencies for education calls for a better understanding of two issues: (i) what such competencies are, and (ii) how they can be assessed. In fact, given the inherent complexity in defining entrepreneurial competencies as an umbrella term for different elements, there is a certain risk of ambiguous and non-unique conceptualizations of them (Chell, 2013; Mitchelmore & Rowley, 2010). In this paper we first carry out a literature review regarding the conceptualization and measurement of entrepreneurial competencies. In the second stage, we develop a set of tools to assess the competencies identified and carry out a pilot study on a sample of 60 students attending entrepreneurship education courses in five European countries. La valutazione delle competenze trasversali nella formazione all’imprenditorialità Il concetto di competenze imprenditoriali è complesso e comprende componenti che possono essere acquisite e implementate attraverso l’esperienza, la formazione e l’istruzione (Man, Lau & Chan, 2002). La rilevanza delle competenze imprenditoriali per le politiche di istruzione e formazione richiede una migliore comprensione di due questioni: (i) l’identificazione di tali competenze e (ii) la valutazione delle stesse (Chell, 2013; Mitchelmore & Rowley, 2010). Questo lavoro presenta un’analisi della letteratura riguardante la concettualizzazione e la misurazione delle competenze trasversali legate all’imprenditorialità, una serie di strumenti che sono stati individuati per valutare le competenze identificate e uno studio pilota su un campione di 60 studenti universitari coinvolti in corsi di formazione all’imprenditorialità in cinque paesi europei.

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A Rounder Sense of Purpose is a three-year European Union-funded project. In its first phase has developed a concise set of educator competences for the teaching of education for sustainable development based on a more extensive framework developed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in 2011. An important factor in promoting the use of such competences is having a means to assess them. The project has used an assessment approach based on the peer review of dialogue stimulated by brief presentations with follow-up question and answer sessions. Dialogue is assessed in terms of horizontal and vertical learning. This paper reports on an action research exercise based on this assessment approach involving over twenty student volunteers. Initial findings suggest that the approach may provide an efficient and effective means of assessing affective learning in relation to sustainability education. Lo studio europeo A Rounder Sense of Purpose per sviluppare e valutare le competenze per gli educatori dello sviluppo sostenibile Il progetto di ricerca dal titolo A Rounder Sense of Purpose, della durata di tre anni, ha sviluppato, nella sua prima fase, un sintetico set di competenze educative legate all’insegnamento dei temi dello sviluppo sostenibile. Esso ha come riferimento il quadro sviluppato dalla Commissione economica per l’Europa delle Nazioni Unite nel 2011. Un mezzo per promuovere l’utilizzo di tali competenze è rappresentato dalla predisposizione di dispositivi per la loro valutazione. L’approccio utilizzato nel progetto di ricerca per la valutazione si basa sulla peer review e sul dialogo, stimolati da brevi presentazioni con sessioni di domande e risposte di follow-up. Il dialogo è valutato in termini di apprendimento orizzontale e verticale. Il presente articolo intende riportare una attività di ricerca-azione che ha inteso sperimentare questo approccio valutativo, con il coinvolgimento di oltre venti studenti volontari. I risultati preliminari suggeriscono che l’approccio adottato può fornire uno strumento efficiente ed efficace per valutare l’apprendimento affettivo in relazione all’educazione alla sostenibilità.

Due to the establishment of the educational and institutional system in students from birth to six years old, teachers are required to reflect on how to design a scholastic skills-based curriculum. Additionally, they are also required to understand how to ensure the continuity in teaching, especially in the first classes of primary school. In order to qualify these processes, the courses for professional teaching development are built with the aim to share the best teaching and assessment practices. This paper shows the outcomes of a Professional Development-Research (PD-R) that has expected the development and the insertion of a “Reality Task” in form of simulation. In the Professional Development-Research (PD-R) the focus has been on the development of some transversal competencies that imply the abilities to solve problems, make decisions, be autonomous, collaborate with others and re-elaborate experiences. Promuovere e accertare competenze nelle classi prime di scuola primaria: il dispositivo “compito di realtà” in forma di simulazione Con l’istituzione del “Sistema integrato di educazione e di istruzione dalla nascita sino ai sei anni” i docenti sono chiamati a riflettere su come progettare un curricolo scolastico orientato alle competenze e come garantire la continuità didattica nelle classi iniziali del primo ciclo. Per qualificare questi processi i percorsi di formazione e sviluppo professionale dei docenti svolgono una funzione strategica valorizzando la condivisione di buone pratiche didattiche e valutative. Il contributo approfondisce gli esiti di una Ricerca-Formazione (R-F) che ha previsto l’elaborazione e l’introduzione del “compito di realtà” in forma di simulazione. Nel progetto di R-F l’interesse è stato focalizzato sullo sviluppo di alcune competenze trasversali che implicano la capacità di risolvere situazioni problematiche, assumendo decisioni, esercitando la propria autonomia, collaborando con altri e rielaborando l’esperienza.

This paper presents the promotion actions and the support made by the LaborEst on behalf of the Provincial Administration of Reggio Calabria, aimed at the establishment of a “Research Centre for the promotion and development of tourism marketing”. This study, through the Destination Branding, retraces the market trends and research breakthroughs, presenting marketing applied to cultural tourism and the assessment approach to culture heritage destinations, addressing the competitive challenges that have emerged in the tourism market over the last ten years. In particular, it discusses the Centre’s main goals, addressing the methodological process, the pilot project and, finally, the framework of the experimental operational program developed for the next phase.

This paper investigates to what extent the educational system and school results can be used to promote self-assessment processes designed to improve pupils’ performances. It present the design, structure and frameworks used in the National Evaluation Service mathematics tests for primary school developed by INVALSI. The objective of this study is to highlight the strengths and weaknesses related to data processing and reporting, so as to increase the validity and reliability of the assessment procedures and tests. The results of this evidence-based research can be used by schools for formative assessment and to redefine the effectiveness of their teaching practices.

In this research paper we described the existing relation between the controllable components of the current learning context (CLC) which leads us to Biggs’s aligned system of instruction. We tried to shape the CLC components in order to increase the CLC effectiveness. We succeed to do this through the curriculum we build, which was created based on Bloom’s taxonomy and critical thinking approach of teaching. The importance of the research consists in offering our perspective on the alignment process between objectives, teaching and assessment through the course design we created.

During the last decades, the rapid and dynamic technological changes had important repercussions on the educational systems. This paper focuses on the challenges of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) developments regarding assessment in higher education. Higher education is now entering the era of digital modernity which transformed the way knowing, learning and, consequently, assessment are perceived. Such shifts have prompted the emergence of connectivism as a learning theory for the knowledge society. In this context, ePortfolios 2.0 have an extensive potential for the assessment of lifelong and lifewide learning, for they add to the traditional Portfolio the benefit of social learning and communities of practice.

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