Formative Assessment in LDL: A Teacher-training Experiment

The pandemic crisis that overcame us last year still reflects on teacher education. This paper reports a teacher training experiment focused on the use of large-scale assessment materials in a formative perspective and in a laboratorial distance teaching setting. In 2020, during the period of long-distance learning, we implemented a long-distance teachers professional development program addressed to teachers of all school levels. This program was structured along 16 webinars that involved 2539 Italian teachers. At the beginning of the school year 2020/2021, a follow-up questionnaire was developed and implemented. One of the purposes of this questionnaire was to clarify how this experience impacted on teachers beliefs and practices. As a result, we find that our training program helped resilient teachers in outlining the potential of the technologies.