Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to know the types of diagnostic tools, their characteristics and the results they provide for the educational process in terms of learning difficulties, they will be able to use already standardised assessment tools for Romance languages, but also to construct their own informal tools and set corresponding learning objectives, depending on the extent and intensity of learning difficulties. Finally, they will be informed about interlinguistic assessment methods and about the accessibility to the exams for students with special educational needs.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The aim of this course is to bring students in contact with the educational assessment in typical population but also in people with special educational needs. Specifically, students will be familiarised with assessment methods and techniques, depending on the parameters / skills that are each time under assessment (cognitive, linguistic, learning) in typical and clinical populations. Various assessment tools will be presented for Italian and French as a mother tongue but also as a foreign language. More specifically, the following sections will be analysed:
Definition of assessment, methods and techniques of assessment
Educational assessment - standardised and non-standardised diagnostic tools and their psychometric characteristics (validity, reliability, representativeness, usefulness, objectivity)
Assessment of students with special educational / learning needs: effectiveness and teaching decisions
Methods for assessing the intensity and extent of learning difficulties in students learning a second language
Evaluation of perceptual and cognitive parameters
Evaluation of language parameters
Assessment of learning parameters
Assessment tools for Romance languages (Italian, French, etc.) as L1 and as FL for the diagnosis of learning difficulties
Cross-linguistic assessment in special education: issues, challenges and recommendations
Exam accessibility issues for students with special educational needs
Keywords
assessment, Romance languages, learning difficulties, diagnostic tools, special educational needs
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
Αγαλιώτης (2011). Εκπαιδευτική αξιολόγηση μαθητών με δυσκολίες μάθησης και προσαρμογής. Αθήνα: Γρηγόρη.
Κακανά Δ.Μ., Μπότσογλου Κ., Χανιωτάκης Ν., Καβαλάρη, Ε. (επιμ.) (2015). Η αξιολόγηση στην εκπαίδευση: Παιδαγωγική και διδακτική διάσταση. Θεσσαλονίκη: Αφοί Κυριακίδη.
Additional bibliography for study
Ηλιοπούλου, Κ. & Ζάγκα Ε. (2021). Κατανόηση και παραγωγή προφορικού λόγου: διδασκαλία και αξιολόγηση με εφαρμογές. Θεσσαλονίκη: Αφοί Κυριακίδη.
Κακανά, Δ.Μ., Μπότσογλου, Κ. Χανιωτάκης, Ν. Καβαλάρη, Ε. (2015). Η αξιολόγηση στην εκπαίδευση: Παιδαγωγική και διδακτική διάσταση. Θεσσαλονίκη: Αφοί Κυριακίδη.
Κουλάκογλου, Κ. (2013). Ψυχομετρία και ψυχολογική αξιολόγηση. Αθήνα: Πατάκης.
Ντολιοπούλου, Ε., & Γουργιώτου, Ε. (2008). Η αξιολόγηση στην εκπαίδευση. Αθήνα: Gutenberg.
Pindzola H. R., Plexico W. L., Haynes O. W. (2020). Διάγνωση και αξιολόγηση στην λογοπαθολογία. Λευκωσία: Broken Hill Publishers.