OVERVIEW

Design and evaluate interventions requires to professionals of education and training peculiar modes of reasoning, mastery of technical languages and specific skills, ability to work with other figures. The course provides students with knowledge and skills for: needs analysis, design and evaluation of interventions in education field and social work and the opportunity to experience some techniques and tools under the supervision of the teacher.

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The main learning outcomes are: provide students with models for the analysis of social contexts of intervention, knowledge and technical skills relevant to design and evaluate of interventions in the education, training and social work; present to the students and make them experience some techniques and tools used in the design and evaluation of interventions in these areas.

TEACHING METHODS

Lectures, presentation and critical discussion of case studies, group work under the supervision of the teacher.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course includes the discussion of various topics and direct experimentation by students of analytical and planning techniques commonly used in the design and evaluation of interventions in education and social field, both locally and in Europe.

- Social needs and Welfare: general concepts; needs analysis, problems and their causes;

- Training and social policies: general concepts and normative of reference.

- Governance and participation in the design and evaluation of social and educational policies.

- Models, techniques and tools for the design of interventions;

- Design and conduct of evaluation research.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ferrera M., a cura di, 2012, Le politiche sociali, Bologna, Il Mulino. (attending students preparing a project work: capp. 1, 3 e 5; non-attending students: all)

Bezzi C., 2010, Il nuovo disegno della ricerca valutativa, FrancoAngeli, Milano.

European Commission, 2004, Aid Delivery Methods. Project Cycle Management Guidelines, European Commission, Brussels (available on Aulaweb, the parts indicated by the teacher)

Schunk J., 2014, Il Ciclo del progetto (available on Aulaweb, attending students preparing a project work: the parts indicated by the teacher; non-attending students: all) 

Tomei G., 2016, Valutare gli outcome dei programmi complessi. Approcci, metodologie, tecniche. FrancoAngeli, Milano (for non-attending students: all)

The materials available on Aulaweb.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MAURO PALUMBO (President)

CLAUDIO TORRIGIANI (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

Second semester

Class schedule

METHODS AND TECHNOLOGIES OF THE EVALUATION OF THE SOCIAL AND FORMATIVE POLITICS

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

The exam is written. The student who has passed the written test comes to the next session for an oral question and the registration of the vote.

The attending students may decide to carry out a group project work (groups of up to 6-7 people). These students will benefit from the program reductions specified in the "Texts / Bibliography" section. They will have to sustain the written test for both modules (87038 and 87039) during the winter session and, after acquiring the necessary knowledge and tools, they will independently develop the project work during the second semester and will be enabled to present it to the teachers during the summer session. For those students, the vote for each module will be given by the average of the evaluation assigned to the written test (60%) and to the project (40%). The evaluation of the project will consider the quality of the project (70%) the quality of Power Point presentation (10%) the quality of the oral presentation of each group component (20%). The overall vote for the integrated course (average of both modules 87038 and 87039) will be recorded only after the presentation of the project.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written exam is a prerequisite to access to oral exam. Through the written exam, the teacher verifies the acquisition by the student of the fundamental concepts covered in the teaching and the ability to relate to each other, the mastery of the knowledge and the technical language and competence in applying what she/he has learned in real problems. The oral exam is a written exam discussion.

Exam schedule