Projects
SMART SCHOOLS Greece
SMART SCHOOLS Greece develops a comprehensive monitoring and evaluation framework to assess the effectiveness of digital education investments in Greek schools. By defining educational…
Rapporto sul Sistema Educativo della Provincia Autonoma di Trento
The project develops an integrated system to monitor and analyse the school system of the Autonomous Province of Trento through structured indicators and data…
EVIDALI: Evidence-informed data literacy for policy and practice
The digitalisation of education has dramatically increased the availability and use of educational data, presenting both opportunities and challenges. While data can support personalised…
TRACK ADVISING
Every year, about 500 thousand students in Italy receive high-school track recommendations from their teachers. However, there is no clear evidence that these recommendations…
COMPITI@CASA
The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened existing educational inequalities, disproportionately affecting children already at risk of social exclusion. The shift to distance learning widened the…
HOMER – How to Make College More Affordable
Public institutions use different measures to help low-income households cover the costs of their children’s post-secondary education. One such approach is the use of…
SPARKLE - STEM Practical Activities to Raise Knowledge Learning and Exploration
STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) represent a rapidly growing sector with demand for qualified workers consistently exceeding supply. However, few young people…
PUOI - Percorsi Opportunità Istruzione
In Italy, there are strong inequalities in the educational opportunities of boys and girls belonging to families with low incomes. Since the 1990s, in…
WILL-TO
Children growing up in families with low economic resources face a higher risk of not being able to achieve their educational goals or even…
Riesco - Resilience and savings for education in the post-Covid period
Numerous studies have highlighted that in Italy, as in other countries, the economic conditions of the family of origin significantly influence the likelihood of…
DATA2LEARN@EDU - Data-Driven Learning Organizations in the Education Domain
Despite some promising results in higher education, in other educational contexts learning analytics did not achieve the same level of adoption. Primary and secondary…
AI-LEAP - LEArning Personalization with AI and of AI
A growing gap between the progress of AI science, on one side, and people’s knowledge even of the basic principles of AI, on the…
Arcipelago Educativo
Learning gaps between students from different social backgrounds emerge from the earliest years of schooling and can, if not countered, translate into real inequalities…
EIBURS - The Future of Schooling: Harnessing the Potential of Digital Education Technology
With the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting spread of distance and blended learning in schools, the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), and…
SENSES - Evaluation of an experiential school intervention to counter stereotypes towards persons with visual disabilities
According to a recent ISTAT report, there are more than 300,000 pupils with disabilities attending Italian schools. Their incidence stands at 3.6% of the…
Dare Valore (The multidimensional network for inclusion)
Dare Valore (The multidimensional network for inclusion) is a pedagogical intervention project aimed at increasing levels of school participation, learning motivation and competencies in…
SMAILE - Simple Methods for Artificial Intelligence Learning
“SMAILE’s goal is to make AI concepts accessible to a wide spectrum of children and young adults and empower them to both understand and…
Assess@Learning
A growing number of studies highlight the potential of formative assessment to improve students’ achievement and self-regulated learning. Formative assessment helps collect feedback for…
Continuous professional development, professional capabilities and innovative teaching practices among European teachers. A second level analysis of TALIS 2018 data set
The project is a second-level analysis of the Talis 2018 dataset, investigating several key aspects in the career of EU teachers in lower secondary…
WILL
Family wealth affects children's education. Wealth provides families with several advantages, ranging from being able to rely on secure resources to purchase extracurricular resources…
Study on higher education institutions and local development
Economic development is increasingly related to the ability of a territory to foster innovation and attract highly skilled human capital. For this reason, it…
The effects of threat of grade retention on students achievement in the higher secondary school system in Italy
We use a reform that was implemented in Italy in 2007 to investigate the effects on academic achievement of more stringent requirements for the…
Evaluating the impact on students achievement of the introduction of ICT in Italian lower secondary schools
In 2009 the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR) funded the Cl@ssi 2.0 programme with the aim of evaluating the impact of providing lower secondary…
Evaluation of the “Maestro Unico” reform
This project represents the first evaluation of the “Maestro Unico” reform in Italy, which sizably reduced the number of teachers in primary schools of…
Social inequalities in education in historical and comparative perspectives: the changing effects of different components of social origins
The relationship between social origins and educational attainment has been the subject of extensive research. However, the field is still one characterised by considerable…
Integrated scheme for the evaluation of the educational system in Trentino
The project, funded by IPRASE (in the context of the European Social Fund), aims at describing the performances of the PAT school system. Efficacy and equity…
Engagement and achievement of 15 year olds in PISA 2015 across EU member states
Non-traditional competences such as perseverance, effort and engagement are increasingly recognized as strong predictors of young people’s educational attainment and future life outcomes. The…
Merit-based financial aid to students from low-income families and its effects on university enrollment
In 2009 the Autonomous province of Trento has started to play a leading role in encouraging students from low income families to obtain higher…
Evaluation of the 2001 reform of higher education in Italy
This research project aims to assess the effects of the reform of Higher Education (HE) approved in 1999 in Italy and implemented in 2001.…
Does randomly drawing the selection committee improve the quality of academic recruitment?
The project focuses on the effects of the last change in the rules of recruitment in Italian Universities. Starting from 2009 (DM27/03/09), the rules…
Impact evaluation of the study abroad program Mos-4
The aim of this project is to investigate the impact of programmes designed by the Province of Trento, and co-funded by the European Social…
ACHAB - Affording College with the Help of Asset Building
Socioeconomic disparities in higher education attainment are still prominent and pervasive across many countries. People from families with low incomes are less likely to…
SCUOLINSIEME
SCUOLINSIEME aims at testing the effectiveness of an innovative intervention intended to enhance student achievement and improve school climate. The project is implemented in…
School-To-Work Transitions: reforming the vocational education and training system and innovating the upper secondary education system in Trentino
The project aims at studying and assessing the introduction of innovative measures in the education and training system with the objective of improving youths’…
MENTEP - Mentoring Technology Enhanced Pedagogy
MENTEP (MENtoring Technology-Enhanced Pedagogy) aimed at developing a reliable tool for teachers to self-assess progress in technology-enhanced teaching (TET) competences and testing the tool’s…
2DD - Investigating the "Second Digital Divide" across European countries: social disparities on digital reading and navigation skills
In the information age, equal access and use of digital resources and new technologies has become a major policy objective in most industrialised countries.…
ICT@School - ICT in education Indicators Working Group
ICT@School is a Europe-wide working group hosted by EUN-Schoolnet aimed at enhancing the quality and the cross-national comparability of data regarding the availability of…