BOOKS BY CRISTINA MARIA RAPPAGLIOSI

I principali motivi di disagio, ansia, stress, burnout nonché le fonti di motivazione e di soddisfazione degli insegnanti: una ricerca che ha coinvolto un campione di insegnanti delle scuola elementare, media inferiore e superiore del Veneto. Una lettura articolata inerente alle problematiche che ruotano attorno all’insegnamento, partendo da un’analisi della letteratura italiana ed europea sull’argomento, illustrando poi l’importante indagine attuata, a livello regionale, nei diversi gradi scolastici.

A large number of people is presently working in the teaching field and, according to several studies (for example, Ben-Ari, Krole, Har-Even, 2003; Greenglass, Burke and Konarsky, 1997; Rasku and Kinnunen, 2003; Pomai and Anagnostopoulou, 2003) they are experiencing discomfort, tension and, more and more often, inadequacy and threat, besides a loss of motivation and satisfaction for their job. This study takes into consideration stressful factors and the consequences at a psycho-physical level experienced by a sample of high-school teachers. Moreover it aims at verifying if there are any statistically significant differences in the level of stress noticed in some group-samples, in terms of age, sex, geographical area and years of teaching.

The use of aptitude tests for selections is a rather spread practice, even if the social representation about this type of tools does not seem to give sci-entific sense. Although Verona prefers the use of aptitude tools, the trend was to construct tests directed to abilities (skills), cultural competencies and knowledge. This has been done respecting the needs of the study plan-ning of each faculty. The present report explains the procedures used to adjust tests, and it examines areas of items, subdivided according to vari-ous stimulus-situations. Finally it briefly refers to a special handbook made by the Centro Docimologico and directed to specialized personnel (staff) for test administration.

Since 1995 till the present day, various Faculties of the University of Ve-rona have found a valid support structure in the Docimologico Centre for the predisposition of tests, the formulation of data, and the assessment of final results. Similarly to other universities, the total admission score has been deter-mined through different considerations, on the basis of the maturity score, or that obtained in the selection test. As far as the making of the test itself is concerned, other tests comprising useful measures of both attitude capacity and cultural competence have been used. For certain selections, the tests have been combined with spe-cific questions designed to test particular disciplinary knowledge. Since 1999, some Faculties have introduced for students a compulsory sel-fevaluation test, not affecting the students' enrolment, but in order for the admission test to be an instrument of self-orientation.