Un’esperienza di ricerca-formazione basata sulle competenze, nell’Istituto Comprensivo Melanzio-Parini di Castel Ritaldi

In recent years, the world of education has found itself facing a series of changes to meetthe increasingly pressing needs of the world in which we live. From the methodologicalpoint of view, a series of innovative didactics have been developed, detached from thefrontal lesson and from a transmitting idea of knowledge, favouring an active didacticswhere the student is at the centre of the learning process. In this article we present theresults of a research-training aimed at verifying the effects of active and competencebaseddidactics in two classes (second and fifth) of primary school. To this end, the participatingsubjects were subjected, ex ante and ex post, to tests that verify their cognitivefunctioning, but also their approach and motivation to study. The results show an increasein the above mentioned dimensions for the experimental groups, compared topeer control groups, suggesting that these didactic interventions may have both a directeffect on the subjects’ learning, but also an empowerment effect of psychological andneuropsychological transversal dimensions.