LIBRI DI CRISTIANO CORSINI

In Italy, the presence of music-oriented secondary schools (SMIM) represents a valuable opportunity to enhance the use of music in order to raise the level of inclusiveness of each institution. Music fits positively into the dialectic between education and inclusion as it is a significant developmental experience that enhances the participation and learning of pupils with all types of special educational needs and makes the entire community more welcoming.

Nel nostro Paese la questione della formazione degli insegnanti per la scuola secondaria rimane un nodo irrisolto. A questo proposito, questo libro raccoglie una pluralità di voci, provenienti da varie istanze: la pedagogia universitaria, le associazioni professionali dei docenti (Cidi, Mce), il sindacato, la Fondazione Agnelli. Lo scopo non è quello di presentare soluzioni definitive alla formazione dei docenti, bensì quello di offrire una varietà di ipotesi e di interpretazioni, in modo da favorire un approccio critico e razionale al problema.

The article illustrates and discusses aims, organization and activities of the Italian National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System (Invalsi). In the first part of the article, the relations between the activities carried out by the Institute and the policies adopted in the field of evaluation at a national level are analyzed. The second part focuses on the national assessments carried out by the institute every year. Particularly, an analysis of the tests used in the assessment of reading comprehension and of the conceptual frameworks that oriented their drafting is developed, focusing mainly on the validity issue. Problems related to content validity were identified, as well as several ambiguities related to the aims of the assessments and the use of their results.