OVERVIEW

The integrated course aims to provide students with the knowledge and basic skills for the needs analysis in social settings, programming, designing and evaluating educational and social interventions and provide them with opportunities to experiment techniques and tools used in these areas, under the guidance and supervision of the professors of two modules (87038; 87039).

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Illustrate the challenges to social planning in the complex society and the ways in which the social planner operates, particularly in the public sphere. Illustrate the processes and strategies of evaluative research, with an in-depth analysis of public decision-making contexts, the types and purposes of evaluation and its use in social and training policies. Provide the student with the basic skills to develop and evaluate a project in the educational and social field, to choose and use the techniques of applied social research that are most appropriate to the planning and evaluating of interventions in the educational and social field, to build the appropriate research tools and apply them to the context of social planning.

PREREQUISITES

There are no specific requirements.

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Please, see the indications written in the subjects included into this module.

ASSESSMENT METHODS

The test aims to ascertain the following aspects of the student's preparation:

Knowledge about the basic concepts of the course

Ability to apply them within the specific contexts (education or training)

Ability to build pathways to educational and social policy design and evaluation

Possession of these components of the student's preparation will be ensured through specific oral questions or, in the case of teamwork, evaluating the skills highlighted by work and the ability to expose and to answer to questions posed by the teacher.

Please, for further information see the indications written in the subjects included into this module