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Valutazione ed autovalutazione delle composizioni scritte per la promozione delle abilità linguistiche negli alunni della scuola primaria
2012
La ricerca ha inteso coinvolgere un gruppo di insegnanti della scuola nella progettazione di una rubrica di valutazione attraverso la quale fosse possibile promuovere negli alunni di IV classe primaria la capacità di scrittura. Attraverso la ricerca un gruppo di insegnanti di scuola è stato sensibilizzato a utilizzare la valutazione delle composizioni scritte per diagnosticare e promuovere una serie di operazioni cognitive e metacognitive negli alunni. L’articolo documenta una concreta modalità di promozione dell’innovazione scolastica mediante l’affiancamento dei ricercatori universitari agli insegnanti in servizio The research involved a group of primary school teachers in the sharing of …
La valutazione nella scuola primaria
2022
Il volume intende fornire agli insegnanti di scuola primaria alcuni orientamenti utili per l’espressione, mediante giudizi descrittivi, dei livelli di conseguimento degli obiettivi specifici di apprendimento disciplinare previsti per i loro alunni e del grado di acquisizione delle competenze trasversali. The purpose of this volume is to provide primary school teachers with some useful guidelines for the expression, through descriptive judgments, of the levels of achievement of the specific objectives of disciplinary learning envisaged for their pupils and of the degree of acquisition of transversal skills.
Comparing Traditional and IRT Scoring of Forced-Choice Tests.
2018
This article explores how traditional scores obtained from different forced-choice (FC) formats relate to their true scores and item response theory (IRT) estimates. Three FC formats are considered from a block of items, and respondents are asked to (a) pick the item that describes them most (PICK), (b) choose the two items that describe them the most and the least (MOLE), or (c) rank all the items in the order of their descriptiveness of the respondents (RANK). The multi-unidimensional pairwise-preference (MUPP) model, which is extended to more than two items per block and different FC formats, is applied to obtain the responses to each item block. Traditional and IRT (i.e., expected a po…
409 Using rai-hc assessment instrument to classify home care clients in Finland based on fire emergency evacuation capacity
2016
Background When an uncontrollable fire is detected in a building there may be a 2–3 minutes window for the occupants to move to safety. Poor physical function and cognition may become critical factors in an evacuation situation. In this study a novel functional scale measuring emergency evacuation capacity of home care clients is presented. Methods A fire security expert visited about 250 home care clients assessing their evacuation capacities. For the evacuation capacity three categories were used: 1) is able to evacuate; 2) may be able; 3) unable to evacuate. This data was linked to comprehensive assessments of clients functional and health status performed by home care nurses using the i…
Occurrence of selected antibiotics and antiretroviral drugs in Nairobi River Basin, Kenya.
2015
In this paper, we investigated the occurrence of three antibiotics (sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim and ciprofloxacin) and three antiretroviral (lamivudine, nevirapine and zidovudine) drugs in the Nairobi River Basin, Kenya. The analytical procedure involved extraction using solid phase extraction followed by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry (SPE-LC-ESI-MS/MS). In this study, 40 sites were selected for sampling, including 38 sites along the rivers and 2 wastewater treatment effluent sites. All the studied compounds were detected with sulfamethoxazole having the highest detection frequency of 97.5% and ciprofloxacin had the lowest at 60%. The results show…
Challenging Dogma: Thresholds for Genotoxic Carcinogens? The Case of Vinyl Acetate
2002
Although many questions remain unanswered, the general principle of the sequence of events leading to cancer after exposure to genotoxic carcinogens has become increasingly clear. This helps to understand the parameters that influence the shape of the dose-effect curve for carcinogenesis, including metabolic activation and inactivation of carcinogens, DNA repair, cell cycle control, apoptosis, and control by the immune system. A linear dose-response relationship with no observable threshold seems to be a conservative but adequate description for the carcinogenic activity of many genotoxic carcinogens, such as aflatoxin B1, the tobacco-specific nitrosoketone NNK, and probably N,N-diethylnit…
Valutazione delle funzioni esecutive in ambienti di Realtà Virtuale (RV): uno studio sui pazienti con Disturbo Ossessivo Compulsivo
2014
Lo studio è volto a valutare l'affidabilità e la validità della Realtà Virtuale come strumento per la valutazione neuropsicologica dei pazienti con Disturbo Ossessivo Compulsivo. Tale obiettivo è stato perseguito attraverso la somministrazione della batteria neuropsicologica e la versione virtuale del Multiple Errand Test (V-MET), sviluppato tramite il software NeuroVR, al fine di valutare le funzioni esecutive e la capacità di pianificazione su compiti complessi in pazienti con Disturbo Ossessivo Compulsivo (DOC) e in soggetti sani. Le performance esaminate, in particolar modo il tempo, l’accuratezza e gli errori nell’esecuzione dei compiti ed il numero delle inefficienze sembrano essere v…
Cognitive assessment of OCD patients: Neuro VR vs neuropsychological test
2014
This study aimed to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Neuro- Virtual Reality as tool for the neuropsychological assessment in OCD patients. We used the neuropsychological battery and a virtual version of the Multiple Errand Test (V-MET), developed using the NeuroVR software, in order to evaluate the executive functions, the ability to plan ahead on complex problem solving tasks in daily life in 30 obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) patients and 30 healthy controls. The results showed the presence of difficulties of OCD patients: lower levels of divided attention and higher levels of errors; higher mean rank of inefficiencies, interpretation failures and rule breaks and longer ti…
Virtual Reality and Other Realities
2017
Abstract In this chapter, we describe virtual reality and other mixed reality technological tools, highlighting the role they can play in the Clinical and Health Psychology fields: as stimulating, safe and controlled therapeutic contexts for applying psychological treatments; as ecological settings for conducting psychological assessment; and as a realistic laboratory for psychopathology to test research questions that would be very difficult or impossible to address in a traditional laboratory setting. The existing meta-analyses and systematic reviews of their efficacy are presented. The majority of studies have used virtual realities (VRs) as exposure techniques. This is not surprising, c…
Discovering the Discriminating Power in Patient Test Features Using Visual Analytics: A Case Study in Parkinson’s Disease
2016
Part 11: New Methods and Tools for Big Data Wokshop (MT4BD); International audience; This paper presents a novel methodology for selecting the most representative features for identifying the presence of the Parkinson’s Disease (PD). The proposed methodology is based on interactive visual analytic based on multi-objective optimisation. The implemented tool processes and visualises the information extracted via performing a typical line-tracking test using a tablet device. Such output information includes several modalities, such as position, velocity, dynamics, etc. Preliminary results depict that the implemented visual analytics technique has a very high potential in discriminating the PD …