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Papers by maria chiara pettenati

IGI Global eBooks, Jan 18, 2011

Effectively managing documents is a strategic requirement for every organization. Available Docum... more Effectively managing documents is a strategic requirement for every organization. Available Document Management Systems (DMS) often lack effective functions for automatic document management. One reason is that relevant information frequently is conveyed by unstructured documents, whose content cannot be easily accessed and processed by applications. This article proposes a metadata model, the DMSML (Document Management and Sharing Markup Language), to enable and to ease unstructured document management by supporting the design of DMSs. We argue that the extensive use of this metadata language will render organizational information explicit, promoting information reuse and interoperability, in a more profitable way than what is guaranteed by proprietary DMSs. We also describe the DMSML Framework, a set of tools that we have developed in order to ease DMS design and deployment. Finally, we briefly depict the design and deployment phases of a Web-based DMS prototype based on the DMSML Framework.

IGI Global eBooks, May 19, 2010

Springer eBooks, 2014

In this paper we compare five machine learning techniques in dealing with typical Heart Failure (... more In this paper we compare five machine learning techniques in dealing with typical Heart Failure (HF) data. We developed a Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for the analysis of Heart Failure patient that provides various outputs such as an HF severity evaluation, an HF type prediction, as well as a management interface that compares the various patient’s follow-ups. To realize these smart functions we used machine learning techniques and in this paper we compare the performance of a neural network, a support vector machine, a system with fuzzy rules genetically produced, a Classification and regression tree and its direct evolution which is the Random Forest, in analyzing our database. Best performances (intended as accuracy and less critical errors committed) in both HF severity evaluation and HF type prediction functions are obtained by using the Random Forest algorithm.

Proceedings of the Fifth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics CLiC-it 2018

English. This paper reports first results of a wider study devoted to exploit the potentialities ... more English. This paper reports first results of a wider study devoted to exploit the potentialities of a NLP-based approach to the analysis of a corpus of reflective writings on teaching activities. We investigate how a wide set of linguistic features allows reconstructing the linguistic profile of the texts written by the Italian teachers and predicting whether are reflective. Italiano. L'articolo descrive i primi risultati di uno studio più ampio che impiega strumenti e metodi di analisi e classificazione automatica del testo per descrivere le caratteristiche linguistiche di un corpus di documenti scritti dai neoassunti nella scuola italiana che riflettono su una specifica esperienza didattica.

1st International Conference on Methodologies, Technologies and Tools enabling e-Government (MeTTeG07), 2007

Didamatica 2003 - Informatica per la didattica, 2003

In this paper we present a critical-historical review of some of the projects that have marked an... more In this paper we present a critical-historical review of some of the projects that have marked an important step in the history of the introduction of technology in school.The purpose of the study is to help to trace a route that starts in 2008 and ends today in a scenario of full re-launch of the digital in the school with the recent Law 107 (July, 2015) and the new Digital School Plan (October, 2015). The variables of time together with the role of technology, the type of governance, the training model adopted and the number of recipients, characterize the projects described in which the Ministry of Education, University and INDIRE have held various roles to support the strengthening of the teachers digital skills not only through their initial training but also during the in-service training.

Journal of e-learning and knowledge society, 2018

Starting from the EC Handbook conditions issued in 2010 (Conditions for successful induction Prog... more Starting from the EC Handbook conditions issued in 2010 (Conditions for successful induction Programs) and from a critical and in-depth reading of the induction governance model in Italy and its quali-quantitative evaluation, this work will attempt to validate or enrich governance principles to be applied to similar implementation contexts. Starting from the governance conditions, recognized as fundamental to an effective induction programme, one of the goals of this work is to understand how the conditions of success have been implemented in the Italian training model and, above all, how they have been characterized with respect to the design of network governance.

This paper focuses the attention on Teacher Professional Identity and discusses some quantitative... more This paper focuses the attention on Teacher Professional Identity and discusses some quantitative and qualitative analysis results on the use and the contents of the device Training Curriculum, which is used in the Teachers’ Portfolio for Newly Qualified Teachers in 2015/2016.The results of analysis allowed to validate the Training Curriculum and to emerge the typologies of experiences and the families of skills that the teachers referred most frequently. The results obtained, with the limits of an impressionistic representation of the various experiential paths and the multifaceted skills baggage with which the 2015/2016 teachers have faced entry into the role, allow us not only to know which families of skills the newly appointed teachers consider to be important for the teacher professional identity but also to get an unprecedented image of the teaching profession in order to better plan targeted training initiatives.

I percorsi di formazione che curano l’inserimento dei docenti nell’attività professionale necessi... more I percorsi di formazione che curano l’inserimento dei docenti nell’attività professionale necessitano di integrare, in una circolarità virtuosa, in momenti teorici, pratici e riflessivi. Il presente contributo riporta alcuni risultati preliminari dall’esperienza Neoassunti 2015 e suggerisce come tale esperienza possa guidare le azioni future relative all’accompagnamento del neoassunto in un percorso di crescita continua e consapevole.

Nel mondo delle tecnologie per la conoscenza e emersa la nuova parola chiave: Personal Web. L’Hor... more Nel mondo delle tecnologie per la conoscenza e emersa la nuova parola chiave: Personal Web. L’Horizon Report 2009, nel proporre all’attenzione della comunita dell’e-learning questo concetto, ne esalta le potenzialita per la crescita di conoscenza: «la gestione dell’informazione e molto piu facile di quanto non lo sia stato prima grazie a strumenti di publishing facili da usare per ogni tipo e forma di contenuti». Il Personal Web rende la gestione dell’informazione «easier than never before», piu facile di quanto non sia mai stato, perche per gestire la complessita dell’informazione in rete, tool e servizi di cui disponiamo attraverso il Personal Web rendono semplice lo sviluppo e l’organizzazione del contenuto dinamico online. Armati di strumenti Web per taggare, aggregare, aggiornare e tenere traccia dei contenuti e relazioni i learner di oggi, o i learner per la vita, cioe tutti noi, creano e navigano un Web della Conoscenza. La tesi qui esplorata e che tutti oggi usano un Persona...

ITALIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH, 2019

In this paper, we present the preliminary results of the analysis performed on 50,000texts writte... more In this paper, we present the preliminary results of the analysis performed on 50,000texts written by the Newly Qualified Teachers to reflect on their practice. The Italian InductionProgramme for NQT includes online activities to be carried out in the E-portfoliomanaged by Indire. As part of the training monitoring with the aim to evaluate our supportand to improve instructional scaffolding to teachers, we analysed teachers’ reflectivewriting mixing a new developed framework for teachers’ reflective writing andNatural Language Processing (NLP) techniques. In providing a case study of a large-scaleanalysis of textual teachers’ data in an institutional setting, this paper wants to contributeto the field of learning analytics. We will describe the context, the characteristics of thedata analysed, how all of this has shaped the analytics design. We will describe its implementationand therefore the procedures, tools and metrics developed to representthe content of the teachers’ reflectiv...

The research related to the subject of teaching and learning in rural schools converges on the id... more The research related to the subject of teaching and learning in rural schools converges on the idea that the issues of professional development in response to the skills required by teachers are the basis of a change that brings small schools to be good schools, too. The need to gain greater awareness about theeducational environment of rural schools and to be accompanied to the understanding of the skills mentioned by rural teaching appointments finds in the New Qualified Teacher path (Neoassunti) an action functional to the self-assessment of personal skills and to their better representation. The Inductionpath is characterized by a model that is deeply rooted in the national and international literature.Reflection, as a view on action and a constituent part of teacher competence, allows one to become aware of his/her professional identity and to self-direct the personal evolution and transformative trajectory. Based on retrieved data, this article presents a case study on a rando...

Facilitating In-Service Teacher Training for Professional Development

This work suggests the need to find a few elements - strategies and dispositifs - that if include... more This work suggests the need to find a few elements - strategies and dispositifs - that if included in initial training, induction and in-service training, can facilitate the acquisition of a consistent professional vision and improve the processes themselves in a perspective of long life learning, namely that can overcome a clear demarcation between initial and on in-service training.These elements are: 1) paths based on recursion between immersion in workplace and distancing for a reflection on the practices enacted in an educational environment, 2) use of devices that favour recursion between immersion and distancing (analysis of practices, vicariant tools for practices, e-portfolio), 3) triangulation during the path both in the immersion phase and in the distancing of different perspectives thanks to the interaction among researchers, experts and novices. This contribution checks for the presence of the preceding elements in all steps of training and analyzes the results obtained...

Integrating Video into Pre-Service and In-Service Teacher Training

Using a Narrative-based Review approach in this chapter we aim to provide a system perspective on... more Using a Narrative-based Review approach in this chapter we aim to provide a system perspective on the use of videos in supporting teachers' professional development, with specific regard to professional vision. We first look at the ‘affordances' of video: the capacities that it adds to the toolkits of teacher educators. We then look specifically at evidence for the development of specific abilities related to the professional vision through video: capacity for reflection, noticing and other potential benefits. Later, we focus on how to analyse video so as to develop reflective practice in teachers by presenting meaningful experiences and studies. Lastly, we propose an in-depth view of the possibilities related to collaborative analysis for professional vision development paying specific attention to the more widely used and validated methodologies such as lesson-study, teaching video club, and the dialogic video cycle.

International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations, 2010

ABSTRACT In this work, we focus on the relation between trust and the creation of social capital ... more ABSTRACT In this work, we focus on the relation between trust and the creation of social capital in specific organisations, i.e., Virtual Learning Communities (VLCs). We aim at demonstrating that effective online collaboration and knowledge construction are enabled by a set of trust-related elements which are grounding elements influencing results, motivation, collaboration and cognitive overload; these elements must be accounted for to sustain the overall learning process. To this extent, we provide an investigation model – a questionnaire – to point out the relation between trust and social capital as it is perceived by VLC members of a postgraduate online course. The result of the analysis of the questionnaire is the identification of trust-related elements and indicators to be used in the setup for building a more effective, collaboration-oriented online educational environment.

Inclusion rises new and important challenges in educational design and practices. Curriculum desi... more Inclusion rises new and important challenges in educational design and practices. Curriculum design should not be addressed to an "average student" and subsequently adapted to special subjects; instead it should be conceived so as to be for all since the very beginning of the design, taking into account the various peculiarities (special needs, gifted students, cultural differences, language differences). Fields such as the architectural design and technology design, have already fully endorsed the Universal Access principles; more recently the educational domain has also started to endorse a Universal Design for Learning (UDL) perspective. Inside this context we propose an "Instructional Design for All" model (IDAll), which moves from a comparative analysis of Gagné, Merrill and Cognitive Load Theory general models matching it with the domain of Special Needs. Within this theoretical framework we focus on how technology becomes a crucial asset for an effective a...