165 research outputs found

    ASSESSING SUMMARY WRITING: QUANTITY, QUALITY OR BOTH?

    No full text
    Recognizing that summarizing skills can contribute to the development of linguistic and transversal competence, we present a revised perspective on summary writing as a complex task, pointing up the highly complex linguistic and cognitive features of summarizing, and discussing the key role that assessment can play throughout teaching-learning processes aimed at developing primary school students’ summarizing abilities. After reviewing qualitative and quantitative tools tested in the assessment research literature, we go on to recommend a new approach to evaluation that combines both structured and open-ended tools. Specifically, we propose a set of guidelines on how to assess primary students’ ability to integrate cognitive, language and content aspects in order to grasp the meaning of the narrative text at both the local and global levels and organize a summary of it

    Simulation games for developing skills in summarizing at primary school. Analysing the co-construction of understanding a text

    No full text
    L’articolo descrive un intervento educativo-didattico basato su un gioco di simulazione collaborativo progettato per promuovere la comprensione di un testo come fase essenziale nello sviluppo dell’abilità di riassumere degli alunni della scuola primaria. Il gioco è stato sviluppato e testato come parte di un progetto di ricerca, che include giochi di simulazione esperienziali che coinvolgono i bambini delle scuole primarie italiane in attività motivanti che facilitano l'acquisizione di una serie di abilità. Ogni gioco è strutturato in modo da tener conto del carico cognitivo associato alla complessità del compito e consentire un apprendimento guidato e graduale. Durante i giochi, 37 bambini di terza elementare, divisi in gruppi di 6-8 partecipanti, hanno interagito attivamente con i testi in un processo di co-costruzione della comprensione attraverso interazione, discussione e collaborazione tra pari. Per studiare questo processo, viene presentato un modello di analisi del discorso in classe progettato per illustrare i passi compiuti dai bambini per lavorare insieme nella costruzione del significato del testo.This article describes an educational project based on a collaborative simulation game designed to promote understanding a text as an essential first stage in developing summarizing skills for primary school pupils. The game has been developed and tested as part of a research project, which includes experiential simulation games involving Italian primary school children in motivating activities that facilitate the acquisition of a range of skills. Each game is structured so as to take account of the cognitive load associated with the complexity of the task and enable guided and gradual learning. During the games, 37 third-grade children, divided into groups of 6 to 8 participants, engage actively with the texts in a process of co-constructing understanding through interaction, discussion and cooperation among peers. To study this process, we present a classroom discourse analysis model designed to illustrate the steps taken by the children to work together to construct the meaning of the text

    Mơ Piu

    No full text
    Data collected from the Mơ Piu community during an initial field trip in Nậm Tu Thuʼợng betwween 8 and 12 June 2009. Recordings of speech, songs and music are indexed on day, theme, speaker, question, (song or musical piece). Each question/answer pair is assigned a WAV file. Recordings are in stereo format. On the first track the day, theme, speaker and question number are indicated, followed by a question in Vietnamese (asked by a Vietnamese speaker). On the second track the same question is asked in Mơ Piu and followed by its answer.4 male speakers, 3 female speakers, 7 female singers et 2 male singers have been recorded. In the whole, 7 hours of speech and 1 hour of singing.Datos recolectados en el marco del primer terreno a Nam Tu Thuong en casa de los Mo Piu entre el 8 y 12 de junio de 2009. Los cuerpos de palabra, cantos, pedazos de música, registrados son catalogados al día, tema, emisor, cuestión (canto o pedazo instrumental de música). A cada pareja de cuestión / respuesta corresponde un fichero wav. Los registros han sido efectuados en estéreo. Sobre una pista, el día, el tema, el emisor y el número de la cuestión son recordados, son seguidos por uno cuestión en vietnamita (puesta por un Vietnamita). Sobre la segunda pista, en Mo Piu, la misma cuestión luego es puesta seguida por la respuesta.4 emisores, 3 emisoras, 7 cantantes y 2 cantantes fueron registrados. O en resumen, 7 horas de palabras(voces) y 1 hora de cantos.Lengua en peligro, Mo Piu, VietnamDonnées collectées dans le cadre d'un premier terrain à Nậm Tu Thuʼợng chez les Mơ Piu entre le 8 et 12 juin 2009. Les corpus parole, chants, morceaux de musique, enregistrés sont répertoriés par jour, thème, locuteur, question (chant ou morceau instrumental de musique). A chaque couple question/réponse correspond un fichier wav. Les enregistrements ont été effectués en stéréo. Sur une piste le jour, le thème, le locuteur et le numéro de la question sont rappelés, suivis par une question en vietnamien (posée par un Vietnamien). Sur la seconde piste, en Mơ Piu, la même question est ensuite posée suivie de la réponse.4 locuteurs, 3 locutrices, 7 chanteuses et 2 chanteurs ont été enregistrés. Soit au total, 7 heures de paroles et 1 heure de chants

    Simulation, Training, and Education Between Theory and Practice

    No full text
    This chapter reports the results of a theoretical and practical research work on simulation, both as a teaching strategy that creates a dynamic and experiential situation which enables participants to take on roles in relation to the variables to be tested or modified, and the learning content that the students need to acquire. With reference to the training and educational needs of contemporary society, the theoretical premises underlying simulation are considered and examined in relation to recent findings regarding the process of learning and teaching and the acquisition of knowledge, as well as some recent research results. On the basis of the findings, it appears necessary to reflect on the synergy triggered through simulation. It particularly emphasized the role of simulation in the integration of different skills and types of knowledge, leading to the overcoming of the compartmentalization of knowledge and its fragmentation into discrete subjects or disciplines. Questions remain open regarding the role of ICT in the whole simulation process.</jats:p

    Research Outline

    No full text
    This chapter describes how the research was developed: the hypotheses and the decisions taken in the planning stage are explained and the documentation on the carrying out of the project provided along with the research protocols.</jats:p

    Simulation Games for the Learning and Teaching of Mathematics

    No full text
    The chapter presents the educational perspective within which the simulation games for learning mathematics are presented, as well as a number of considerations on the implementation of teaching course and environments. The main decisions taken for the design of simulation games are introduced, whereas the methodological aspects will be studied in greater depth in later chapters.</jats:p

    Titolo del programma di ricerca (coordinatore scientifico nazionale: Luciano Canfora): Il commento come fattore della tradizione dei testi:da Alessandria al Tardo-Antico, da Fozio ai primordi dell'Umanesimo. Titolo del progetto dell'unità di Ferrara (Responsabile scientifico:Angela M.Andrisano): La rilevanza del materiale scoliastico per la costituzione e l'esegesi dei testi greci per la scena e dei testi dialogici

    No full text
    I primi commenti di epoca ellenistica ai testi per la scena, ricchi di informazioni ed interpretazioni ancora utili, ne hanno tuttavia privilegiato gli aspetti letterari ed i riferimenti storici. Il recente studio di R. Meijering (Literary and Rhetorical Theories in Greek Scholia, Groningen 1987) ha messo in luce l'importanza di queste annotazioni per la ricostruzione di una teoria letteraria dell'antichità, non senza osservare come ad eccezione di pochi casi gli scoli ai testi per la scena non sono diversi da quelli ad Omero. Questa situazione di partenza, ribadita in epoca umanistico-rinascimentale (si vedano anche le traduzioni latine di testi, nati per una performance orale, che trascurano tale scopo primario) con le dovute eccezioni (cf. ad es. il tentativo di Giraldi Cinzio di far rinascere il dramma satiresco attraverso la stesura di un testo teorico oltre che attraverso la composizione dell' Egle), ha condizionato la comprensione di tali testi, in molti casi inaugurando una tradizione interpretativa che potrebbe essere allargata a vantaggio di una piu' soddisfacente esegesi in senso drammaturgico. Sul versante dei testi dialogici poetici e non (Teocrito e Luciano) manca un'attenzione alle annotazioni antiche che ne metta in evidenza eventuali riferimenti ad una potenziale fruizione orale attraverso letture pubbliche
    corecore