Digital Documentation of School Practices: a Research Project

The essay presents the results of the "Documentary research of teaching practices" developed by the National Institute of Educational Documentation, Innovation and Research (Indire). This research aims to understand the documentation practices of Italian teachers and to design a digital format to help and support teachers in documenting their activities, providing them with standard tools for analysing and sharing good practices. The first part of the essay focuses on the results of the online questionnaire that Indire presented to Italian teachers in order to gain an overview of how schools currently document their teaching practices, collecting over 2000 answers. The empirical analysis of the questionnaire represents the starting point for the second part of the essay that presents the iterative process of designing and testing a digital audiovisual format which represents a guideline for the production of teaching supports and customisable infographics.