Strategies and tools to analyse and value faculty professional competences in University

Journal title EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN LEARNING AND TEACHING
Author/s Renata Clerici, Anna Serbati, Lorenza Da Re
Publishing Year 2021 Issue 2021/0 Language Italian
Pages 13 P. 31-43 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/exioa0-2021oa11126
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The paper presents three tools designed and implemented with different purposes and functions to enhance the teaching competences1) The research “Didattica e Insegnamento in Università” (Felisatti & Serbati, 2017; Felisatti & Clerici, 2020) aimed at developing and testing a national survey which offers a framework of the teaching practices in use and a possible classification of expertise, needs and interests for enhancement teaching activities in university classrooms. The survey integrates “objective” data available in administrative archives of the participating Universities, with “subjective” data, directly collected from academics through this Cawi survey.2) The Teaching Perspectives Inventory (Pratt, 1998; Pratt & Collins, 2000) is a self-reported validated questionnaire that allows to detect personal teaching perspectives; the tool aims to promote personal and / or collective reflection on teaching perspectives and on their balance, identifying possible internal (between beliefs, intentions and actions) and external inconsistencies among perspectives.3) The Teaching Practices Inventory (Wieman & Gilbert, 2014) is a self-reported validated tool, built to map teaching practices, by investigating the methodologies adopted by academics in class, through a list of those found in literature. The questionnaire offers useful information to compare different teaching actions performed in different contexts and for mutual learning among colleagues.

Keywords: university, teaching and learning, teaching practices and perspectives, beliefs and needs

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Renata Clerici, Anna Serbati, Lorenza Da Re, Strumenti e dispositivi di analisi e valorizzazione della professionalità docente in Università in "EXCELLENCE AND INNOVATION IN LEARNING AND TEACHING" 0/2021, pp 31-43, DOI: 10.3280/exioa0-2021oa11126