Papers by Maria Rosaria Re
The Centre for Museum Studies based at University Roma Tre (IT) has designed and implemented a mu... more The Centre for Museum Studies based at University Roma Tre (IT) has designed and implemented a museum educational programme aimed at promoting the "Tito Rossini" contemporary art collection donated by the artist in 2017 to the Department of Education. The educational programme foresees the use of innovative and digital education methodologies and tools (e.g. Digital Storytelling, Augmented Reality and Gamification) and is addressed to university and external users. A pilot study with university students was carried out in order to verify the achievement of some objectives of the programme designed for the exhibition. This experience addresses the need for personalised educational museum paths in view of promoting social inclusion and transverse skills, focusing on critical thinking in particular.
Journal of e-learning and knowledge society, 2019
The present paper aims at presenting the Critical Thinking (CT) Skills assessment results in teac... more The present paper aims at presenting the Critical Thinking (CT) Skills assessment results in teachers participating in the Erasmus+ KA203 CRITHINKEDU summit (Critical Thinking Across the European Higher Education Curricula), organised in Leuven in June 2019. Within the summit, a workshop was organized to promote in participants’ CT skills knowledge, especially in terms of CT assessment methods through open-ended questions. Based on our theoretical assumptions, description and interpretation activities of written text promote skills such as Analysis, Argumentation, Inference and Critical evaluation, which can also be defined in terms of improvement of language skills. Teachers participating in the workshop were assessed through a test composed by literary text paraphrase and commentary exercises; a prototype for the automatic assessment of CT in open-ended answers was used to evaluate the open-answers. Also three human raters evaluated the answers’ texts. The goal of the present rese...
Object-Based Learning and Well-Being, 2020
Journal on Educational Technology, Nov 10, 2021
The research experience "Narrating the museum to promote empathy and critical thinking in medical... more The research experience "Narrating the museum to promote empathy and critical thinking in medical science students and doctors through online activities", carried out within the "Inclusive Memory" project, co-funded by University Roma Tre, aims at promoting empathy and critical thinking skills in medical science students and doctors through heritage education activities. The innovative features of the research experience lie in the use of online activities, combining different learning methodologies: Visual Thinking Strategies, Reflective Questioning, Storytelling and Object-Based Learning. The paper presents the results of the pilot activity carried out by the Centre for Museum Studies research group, based at the Department of Education-Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome. It also describes the teaching activities, learning and evaluation tools used during the pilot experience, which involved 35 participants. The trial results highlight a statistically significant improvement in the Critical Thinking use of language indicators and an improvement of Sensitivity to the context empathy dimension; participants state that their levels of communication and critical thinking skills improved at the end of the activities and that the exercises foreseen stimulated reflection, observation and interpretation.
Archaeological museum exhibitions are made up of collections that represent complex cultural syst... more Archaeological museum exhibitions are made up of collections that represent complex cultural systems. Consequently, museum education has the role of mediating these objects to different categories of users, clarifying the relationships between the collections and the cultural system they belong to. However, for some kinds of pieces, such as musical ones, this activity includes a 'performative' part, where the object is an instrument to perform an action. For centuries, museum studies have been split between the conservation of objects and the preservation of their performative capacities and, in the case of musical instruments, in order to use them in educational and research contexts (ICOM CIMCIM, 2019). The use of reproductions, such as digital modeling, has been widely discussed, sometimes controversially; however, scientific studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of active teaching methodologies, such as Object-based Learning, in museum contexts for active users'...
Nel seguente contributo sono presentate le attività condotte dal gruppo di ricerca LPS (Laborator... more Nel seguente contributo sono presentate le attività condotte dal gruppo di ricerca LPS (Laboratorio di Pedagogia Sperimentale) e CDM (Centro di Didattica Museale) dell'Università Roma Tre nell'ambito del progetto Erasmus+ KA2 DICHE (Digital innovation in cultural and heritage education in the light of 21st century learning). Destinatari privilegiati sono gli alunni di Scuola Primaria, che, grazie all'innovazione digitale in ambito museale, hanno la possibilità di sviluppare competenze trasversali quali la creatività, la comunicazione, la collaborazione e il pensiero critico. La formazione dei docenti in servizio e in formazione nonché degli operatori museali circa le nuove metodologie didattiche risulta fondamentale per assicurare la progettazione di percorsi educativi innovativi e inclusivi.
EDEN Conference Proceedings, 2020
The current global health emergency has posed the need to reflect upon how to guarantee high stan... more The current global health emergency has posed the need to reflect upon how to guarantee high standard of quality in 100% virtual exhibition. In this case study, we present one of the possible solutions to design a VR museum exhibition for educational purposes. The Centre for Museum Studies designed “The E-Trouria App”, a VR exhibition which is aimed at providing participants with personalised learning path based on an Etruscan museum collection in Rome. The App was designed by combining different pedagogical methods such as Digital Storytelling and Reflective Questioning. The goals of the research were to understand visitors' evaluation of their experience. 20 postgraduate students (F = 17; M = 3; Average age = 36 years) in Museum Education took part in the pre-pilot experimentation. Participants expressed very positive evaluation on the visit and their features (narratives, soundtrack and multimodality). Participants were emotionally engaged during the visit and the most report...
Proceedings of the 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Image and Imagination, 2020
The Tito Rossini initiative is a project promoted by the Centre for Museum Studies based at Dept.... more The Tito Rossini initiative is a project promoted by the Centre for Museum Studies based at Dept. of Education-University Roma Tre (Italy), where, starting from the promotion of Tito Rossini's paintings collected and exhibited at the University premises, a specific fruition programme has been designed by the master students attending the module "Experimentalism, Museum and Reading". The main aims of the designed museum educational programme were: to create interactive tools for the fruition of Rossini's works of art; to increase visitors' knowledge about Rossini and his collection exhibited at the University, to promote visitors 4C skills (communication, creativity, collaboration and critical thinking). In order to create an engaging user's experience, different tools for cultural mediation were realized for each Rossini's painting under investigation: a description, a brief audio narrative (linked to a QR code) inspired by the artwork (text also in Braille Code) and a music soundtrack played by the students themselves participating in the project. Specific assessment tools were designed and used in the museum educational programme.
7th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'21), 2021
The present paper aims to illustrate the reorganization of two post-graduate courses, “Museum Edu... more The present paper aims to illustrate the reorganization of two post-graduate courses, “Museum Education. Theoretical aspects” and “Advanced Studies in Museum Education” promoted by CDM (Center for Museum Studies) - Dept. of Education at Roma Tre University, carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic, and to analyze the education strategies adopted in terms of museum professionals development to face the Covid-19 museum and universities 2020 Italian lockdown.The results emerging from the quantitative evaluation of the module “Museum and Social Networks”, taking into consideration the activities and digital tools proposed, show the efficacy of the courses reorganization, in terms of transverse and professional skills development in university students, critical thinking and collaboration in particular. Moreover, the data analysis give useful indications in term of university online lectures, laboratory activities and practices in e-learning mode, evaluation tools and methodologies aimed...
Journal of e-learning and knowledge society, 2017
The present paper describes one of the pilot activities foreseen by the Erasmus+ project DICHE (D... more The present paper describes one of the pilot activities foreseen by the Erasmus+ project DICHE (Digital Innovation in Cultural and Heritage Education in the light of 21st century learning). The above mentioned pilot activity was carried out at the undergraduate course in Educational sciences – University AUTHOR, as an internal training module for the conception, implementation and evaluation of MOOC courses in museum education. Main objective of the module was to develop design and realisation skills in Educational science students. Those engaged in the module were asked to create cultural and heritage education courses for primary school in training and in service teachers. The two main pillars of the DICHE pilot, “MOOCs conception and delivery” and “heritage education”, are in line with the most recent national and international field literature research and with the Italian education system directions, aiming at integrating museum education in primary school curricula and a more ...
Form@re : Open Journal per la Formazione in Rete, 2019
There is a growing attention toward the designing of personalized learning experience in the cont... more There is a growing attention toward the designing of personalized learning experience in the context of museum education. Personalized learning paths could be crucial to enhance museum accessibility and social inclusion. In the context of the Inclusive Memory project a Web App was developed to detect museum visitors’ profiles and to provide them inclusive learning paths. In the present work we will present the results of a pilot experience carried out within the Tito Rossini university painting collection at the Department of Education of the Roma Tre University, by involving 15 post-graduate students (F = 13; M = 2; Average age = 36). At the beginning of the lesson, participants were required to fill in the first questionnaire through the web-app. Then, they visited the Tito Rossini exhibition and eventually filled in the second questionnaires about their preference. Generally, participants reported a general interest for the exhibition and appreciated multimodality. Some associati...
Journal of e-learning and knowledge society, 2018
The great interest and debate on teachers 21st century skills development is closely connected wi... more The great interest and debate on teachers 21st century skills development is closely connected with a “new” approach to education and learning which inevitably affects the present and the future of the whole education system. Roma Tre University Museum Education Centre took part in the Erasmus+ DICHE project (Digital Innovation in Cultural Heritage Education) and carried out activities taking into consideration the project theoretical model: informing primary school teachers of new education practices in cultural heritage fruition which employ technologies and also include the evaluation of their effectiveness in learning in terms of competences development. A web app devoted to integrate technology in heritage fruition within primary school education was designed and implemented as one of the project core activities. This paper presents the development and the piloting of this application for mobile devices as a tool for teachers in training: the MuseTech web app.
Most of the attempts to develop and validate tools for the automatic assessment of Critical Think... more Most of the attempts to develop and validate tools for the automatic assessment of Critical Thinking (CT) related-skills applied Natural Language Processing techniques (NLP) to English written texts, with a few applications in other languages. Therefore, this research was aimed at understanding which NLP features correlates with six CT subdimensions in essays written in Italian language. 206 Master Degree students' pre-post essays were assessed both by human evaluators and by an algorithm which automatically calculates different kinds of NLP features. We found a positive internal reliability and a medium to high inter-coder agreement of the human evaluators. Three NLP indicators significantly correlate with CT total score: Corpus Length, Syntax Complexity, and an adapted measure of Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency.
Abstract. The present paper is part of the Erasmus + project “OpenVM: Opening Education for Devel... more Abstract. The present paper is part of the Erasmus + project “OpenVM: Opening Education for Developing, Assessing and Recognising Virtual Mobility Skills in Higher Education”. The aim of this paper is to share good practices related to the implementation of Virtual Mobility (VM) that partners have been developing throughout the project. There will be presented guidelines for designing and choosing OERs for our VM MOOC and which design principles we have been following for the MOOC design and delivery. The guidelines are inspired by previous experiences of VM and literature analysis and they can be useful to design future VM experiences. In addition, the structure and the evaluation of the pre-pilot mini MOOC named “media and digital learning” is presented in detail.
As many EU documents highlight, to improve competitiveness and professional/personal development,... more As many EU documents highlight, to improve competitiveness and professional/personal development, cross-sectional skills are to be enhanced as engines for social innovation: creativity, entrepreneurship, critical thinking and problem solving. The above skills, as many studies mention, are favoured by a cooperative approach. Scientific and technologic culture, relevant element of the shared encyclopaedia and the individual knowledge, also becomes a tool for social and political participation. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that the cooperative approach and the critical use of technology, in particular in the field of science teaching, are the keys to single out solutions able to increase development and growth, from which, in turn, the whole society can benefit. In light of what above mentioned, that of the dissemination of popular science is, today, a duty of public institutions as well as a right of the citizens. Within the above context, the students’ module under inve...
The growing attention on Critical Thinking as an essential driver for progress and knowledge grow... more The growing attention on Critical Thinking as an essential driver for progress and knowledge growth has brought to the development of different kinds of assessment tools. Essays and open-ended questions are recognized to be pivotal in critical thinking assessment. However, they present problems related to inter-rater reliability and high-cost of scoring. Automated scoring could be a viable solution to the above concerns. In this paper, we introduce a prototype for critical thinking automatic assessment based on Natural Language Process techniques and preliminary accuracy evidence regarding its use. Data were collected from 48 university teachers after two workshops carried out both in the United States and in Italy aimed at developing critical thinking Skills in participants. Verso la valutazione automatica del pensiero critico: uno studio pilota. La crescente attenzione nei confronti del Pensiero Critico come competenza cruciale per l’innovazione e lo sviluppo di conoscenze hanno...
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Papers by Maria Rosaria Re