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.

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Know the reference models for the analysis of the social contexts of intervention.

2. Possess methodological and technical knowledge and skills useful for the planning and evaluation of training and social interventions.

3. Experiment with typical techniques and tools for planning and evaluatiion of training and social interventions.

4. Deepen the fundamental concepts of evaluation and know their implications in terms of method and techniques.

5. Possess specific knowledge on social policies and their evolution in the Italian welfare state.

TEACHING METHODS

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

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

The course includes the discussion of various topics:

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

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

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

- Design and conduct of evaluation research.

and direct experimentation by students of analytical and planning techniques commonly used in the design and evaluation of interventions in education and social field.

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

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

Ferrera M., a cura di, 2012, Le politiche sociali, Bologna, Il Mulino. 

The materials made 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

For non-attending students, the exam consists of a written test followed, in the event of a positive outcome, by an oral exam at the next exam session.

Attending students can use the modality provided for non-attending students or carry out the written tests that will be held during the course. There will be a test about halfway through the course and a test before the start of the summer session. An oral exam will follow which can be taken in an official exam session.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The written exam is a prerequisite to access to oral exam. Through the written exam and the oral 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.

Exam schedule