Formative Assessment Practices for Improving Students’ Text Comprehension Abilities: An Experiment in a Lower Secondary School in Italy

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Názov: Formative Assessment Practices for Improving Students’ Text Comprehension Abilities: An Experiment in a Lower Secondary School in Italy
Autori: Elisa Guasconi, Ira Vannini
Zdroj: Journal of Educational, Cultural and Psychological Studies, Vol 1, Iss 31, Pp 153-182 (2025)
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Led Edizioni Universitarie, 2025.
Rok vydania: 2025
Predmety: text comprehension abilities, formative assessment practices, two-group experimental study, Effective teaching, Formative assessment practices, Lower secondary school, Text comprehension abilities, Two-group experimental study, lower secondary school, effective teaching, Education
Popis: Formative assessment (FA) is an expression that covers several practices. While this variety has led to the development of different studies in the international context, there is a lack of experimental research in Italy on the topic. Therefore, this experiment explores the effects of implementing FA practices in the classroom, in terms of students’ text comprehension abilities. A two-group experimental design was carried out involving students from two first-year classes of a lower secondary school in Italy, who were randomly assigned to the treatment or control group. After administering a task on text comprehension abilities, the researcher developed 15 FA activities in the treatment group. At the end of the study, the students’ abilities were measured again and the pre- post-test difference between the two groups was verified. Non-parametric tests were run that did not reveal statistically significant differences. Regardless, a trend shows a slightly higher increase in the achievement of the treatment group.
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ISSN: 2037-7924
2037-7932
DOI: 10.7358/ecps-2025-031-guva
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https://doi.org/10.7358/ecps-2025-031-guva
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Abstrakt:Formative assessment (FA) is an expression that covers several practices. While this variety has led to the development of different studies in the international context, there is a lack of experimental research in Italy on the topic. Therefore, this experiment explores the effects of implementing FA practices in the classroom, in terms of students’ text comprehension abilities. A two-group experimental design was carried out involving students from two first-year classes of a lower secondary school in Italy, who were randomly assigned to the treatment or control group. After administering a task on text comprehension abilities, the researcher developed 15 FA activities in the treatment group. At the end of the study, the students’ abilities were measured again and the pre- post-test difference between the two groups was verified. Non-parametric tests were run that did not reveal statistically significant differences. Regardless, a trend shows a slightly higher increase in the achievement of the treatment group.
ISSN:20377924
20377932
DOI:10.7358/ecps-2025-031-guva