Italian primary school assessment is under constant scrutiny, particularly with the Senate's approval of Bill 924-bis amending O.M. 172/2020. This amendment replaces achievement levels with descriptive assessment. Assessment relies on quantitative and qualitative data gathered by teachers through…

In this contribution, a research path is proposed that is oriented toward the growing need for understanding at the educational level, with specificity of analysis in primary schools, regarding the gifted education. As a method and empirical approach, the proposed methods are oriented toward…

The adoption of the transition from grading to a descriptive evaluation in primary schools, introduced by Ministerial Order 172 of 2020, represents a significant opportunity (Piscozzo & Stefanel, 2022) for teachers to reshape their assessment methods. The evaluation model proposed by current…

The year 2020 was a time of profound changes for elementary school support teachers, first with the d. interm. n. 182 and then with the O.M. n. 172, the latter introduced the descriptive assessment for each school discipline in place of the grade in tenths, in the periodic and final assessments of…

The article examines a project carried out in collaboration with U.S.R. Toscana in the 2020-21 school year. The researchers designed three actions - research, training, consultancy - and analyzed 15 assessment practices in the context of the primary evaluation reform decreed by the O.M. 172/2020. A…

The pandemic situation has drastically reduced the opportunities for movement and socialization of children even in the school environment, forcing them to carry out remote lessons, distance learning and digitally augmented education. Therefore, we will propose the method of active breaks or active…

The Sars-CoV-2 pandemic has created a significant revolution in the way emotions are expressed, stress management, interpersonal relationships and lifestyle. Most affected has been schools where stress levels, in particular, in students and teachers have risen. In such a scenario - taking into…

The Ministerial Ordinance 172/2020 has modified the model for assessing the learning outcomes of pupils attending primary school, proposing an assessment system that leaves out the numerical grade and introduces descriptive judgment in the periodic and final assessment. As is clear from the…

This paper aims at building a state-of-the art pedagogical strategies to adopt in primary school to promote the inclusion of pupils from migration backgrounds, according to an intercultural approach. This framework, in fact, is currently missing, despite a flourishing scientific production in this…

Cooperative approaches and technology are recognized as key issues in the contemporary debate on how to promote social inclusion in schools. Within the ongoing EU Project COoPING (Erasmus+ KA210-SCH) the links between them were explored through a scoping review. The ERIC database was queried to…

The ethical-functional design, programming and management of artificial intelligence and robotics represent one of the greatest challenges that the new generations are certainly facing. A challenge that commits man to a return to the sense of the relationship that he/she has always weaved with…

This article focuses on the main stages of the short-lived experience of the regional Almanacs, or regional culture textbooks containing a variety of notions, which became part of the mandatory reading materials in primary schools during the aftermath of the Gentile Reform of 1923, with the aim of…