Assessment processes and digital devices: Aspects of distance learning
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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1970-2221/19279Keywords:
assessment processes, distance learning, digital technologies, ITIS scale, Italian teachersAbstract
The aim of the paper is to investigate the assessment practices implemented during the period of distance learning caused and “favoured” by the Covid-19 closure, which will start in March 2020. The empirical research is based on a quantitative approach, involving 1148 Italian teachers who responded to a battery of items, some of which focused on the assessment practices used in distance learning. The research shows a heterogeneous picture of assessment practices. The emergency context seems to be a generator of possible changes in teaching, provided that the assessment strategies, the design of learning tests and the feedback devices are strengthened by the awareness of the potential of digital environments and by the pedagogical intention to structure tests and coherent objectives.
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