Prove Invalsi e azione didattica: quali riflessioni sulla progettazione per competenze

Current pressures in the educational context have underlined the importance oftwo basic requirements: the enhancement of evaluation and standards (Invalsi) and the need to modify education program in order to promote competences.To answer these two instances, it was implemented the present empirical research. The research’s aim was to consider the Invalsi experience as an opportunity to start improvement processes in schools, in an alternative way from teaching to the test. Five teachers participated in the case studies. The present research highlights teaching and learning processes in the classrooms within the innovative competences perspective.Il sistema di riforme che negli ultimi anni ha coinvolto la Scuola Primaria italiana ha messo in evidenza due priorità principali: da un lato la valutazione di sistema tramite strumenti standardizzati e omogenei a livellonazionale (Invalsi), dall’altro lo sviluppo di competenze chiave di cittadinanza. Il contributo presenta uno studio empirico fondato sull’ipotesi che la rilevazione Invalsi possa essere un’occasione per promuovere una didattica per competenze, in alternativa al teaching to the test. I cinque studi di caso realizzati descrivono la metodologia utilizzata, che vede l’alternarsi di laboratori di pratiche riflessive e la gestione di attività didattiche in classe, dando evidenza dei processi di apprendimento attivati nei bambini in direzione della formazione di competenze

Il ruolo e le funzioni del tutor nella scuola. Valutare un corso di formazione attraverso sguardi qualitativi e quantitativi The role of tutor at school. The evaluation of a training course through a qualitative and quantitative perspective

Il contributo presenta i risultati di una ricerca valutativa del percorso formativo “il ruolo e le funzioni del tutor nella scuola”, svolto nell’annualità 2017/2018, presso l’Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna e l’Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. Nello specifico è stata condotta un’analisi quali-quantitativa realizzata attraverso la costruzione e somministrazione di un questionario ex-ante ed ex-post finalizzato a delineare il profilo professionale dei docenti partecipanti al corso, attraverso l’analisi di alcune variabili quali: le abitudini didattiche, l’apertura verso l’autovalutazione, le convinzioni in merito alla progettazione didattica; e a valutare la loro disposizione al cambiamento. Si è rilevata una coerenza tra i dati quantitativi e qualitativi: i partecipanti hanno dichiarato un generale apprezzamento della formazione ricevuta e di aver acquisito competenze professionali r i g u a r d a n t i p r i n c i p a l m e n t e l e a r e e dell’osservazione e della documentazione.This contribution presents the results of an evaluation research of the training course "Tutor role at school", carried out in the 2017/2018 at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (Unibo) and the University of Milano-Bicocca (Unimib). Specifically, a qualitative-quantitative analysis was conducted through the construction of an ex-ante and ex-post questionnaire aimed at outlining the professional profile of the teachers attending the course, through the analysis of some variables such as: teaching habits, openness to self-evaluation, beliefs about didactic planning; and at evaluating their motivation towards innovation and change. Both quantitative and qualitative analysis showed similar results: the participants provided a positive feedback related to the training course and to new professional competencies mainly concerning the areas of observation and documentation

Towards a Muon Collider

A muon collider would enable the big jump ahead in energy reach that is needed for a fruitful exploration of fundamental interactions. The challenges of producing muon collisions at high luminosity and 10 TeV centre of mass energy are being investigated by the recently-formed International Muon Collider Collaboration. This Review summarises the status and the recent advances on muon colliders design, physics and detector studies. The aim is to provide a global perspective of the field and to outline directions for future work.Comment: 118 pages, 103 figure

Towards a muon collider

A muon collider would enable the big jump ahead in energy reach that is needed for a fruitful exploration of fundamental interactions. The challenges of producing muon collisions at high luminosity and 10 TeV centre of mass energy are being investigated by the recently-formed International Muon Collider Collaboration. This Review summarises the status and the recent advances on muon colliders design, physics and detector studies. The aim is to provide a global perspective of the field and to outline directions for future work

Human subcortical brain asymmetries in 15,847 people worldwide reveal effects of age and sex

The two hemispheres of the human brain differ functionally and structurally. Despite over a century of research, the extent to which brain asymmetry is influenced by sex, handedness, age, and genetic factors is still controversial. Here we present the largest ever analysis of subcortical brain asymmetries, in a harmonized multi-site study using meta-analysis methods. Volumetric asymmetry of seven subcortical structures was assessed in 15,847 MRI scans from 52 datasets worldwide. There were sex differences in the asymmetry of the globus pallidus and putamen. Heritability estimates, derived from 1170 subjects belonging to 71 extended pedigrees, revealed that additive genetic factors influenced the asymmetry of these two structures and that of the hippocampus and thalamus. Handedness had no detectable effect on subcortical asymmetries, even in this unprecedented sample size, but the asymmetry of the putamen varied with age. Genetic drivers of asymmetry in the hippocampus, thalamus and basal ganglia may affect variability in human cognition, including susceptibility to psychiatric disorders

Erratum:Towards a muon collider

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Towards a muon collider

A muon collider would enable the big jump ahead in energy reach that is needed for a fruitful exploration of fundamental interactions. The challenges of producing muon collisions at high luminosity and 10 TeV centre of mass energy are being investigated by the recently-formed International Muon Collider Collaboration. This Review summarises the status and the recent advances on muon colliders design, physics and detector studies. The aim is to provide a global perspective of the field and to outline directions for future work

Erratum: Towards a muon collider

The original online version of this article was revised: The additional reference [139] has been added. Tao Han’s ORICD ID has been incorrectly assigned to Chengcheng Han and Chengcheng Han’s ORCID ID to Tao Han. Yang Ma’s ORCID ID has been incorrectly assigned to Lianliang Ma, and Lianliang Ma’s ORCID ID to Yang Ma. The original article has been corrected

Simultaneous EEG-fNIRS recording during motor imagery, action observation and execution tasks

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Body ownership in complementary painful and pleasure conditions: an electrophysiological study

Objective In the Rubber Hand Illusion paradigm (RHI), if an artificial hand and the subject\u2019s (hidden) hand are stroked repeatedly and synchronously, the subject feels the artificial hand as part of her/his own body. A distributed temporal-parietal and medial-prefrontal network seems to play a crucial role in defining the ownership illusion but less in known about the potential modulation role of threatening and pleasing stimulation of the fake hand on its incorporation. The present study then aimed at exploring subjective and electrophysiological correlates of the RHI experience and of its potential perturbation through the presentation of threatening vs. innocuous stimulations. Participants and methods 20 healthy subjects took part in the experiment. Experimental design included three counterbalanced stimulation blocks composed by three times-blocks, where participants underwent a baseline recording, the administration of the RHI-inducing procedure, and experiences the threatening (knife) or pleasant (cotton swab) stimulation of the rubber hand or the stimulus missing (blank). After every block participants were presented with a questionnaire on their experience (Rubber Hand Embodiment Scale, RHES). Cortical activity was recorded by electroencephalography. Results During baseline recording, when influenced by knife presentation, data showed an increasing of Delta band. The pleasant stimulus brought an increasing of Alpha band lateralized in occipital area and seemed to be linked to stimuli pleasantness or threatening. Data derived from RHES questionnaire showed more elevated scores in the first experimental condition, in which subjects received the knife before the cotton swab, for items referred to the possibility to feel pain and to the incorporation vividness. Conclusion The knife seemed to influence not only the rubber hand incorporation, but also the following pleasant stimulus, perceived as less comfortable compared to the second condition. Finally, threatening condition specifically seemed to exert greater effect in modulating reported ownership perception