Un’esperienza didattica half-flipped in un ambiente di apprendimento SCALE-UP

In this paper we describe a teaching experiment with a “blended” approach based on the integration of frontal lessons, flipped learning, Peer Discussion, Just in Time teaching and e-learning, also carried out using the social platform Edmodo and a Facebook group. The development of the students’ skills was monitored by means of three tests administered within the experiment; in parallel, we monitored the motivation level and the attitude towards the discipline through an affect test and a satisfaction survey. Some students had two additional hours per week based on cooperative learning in a SCALE UP learning environment. The research methodology falls within the Educational Reconstruction framework, that allowed us to investigate didactical phenomena, designing and creating learning environment, artefacts, teaching and learning sequences in authentic educational contexts. The results of the affect test showed a better attitude towards the discipline; from the satisfaction survey it emerged that most of the students liked the use of alternative methodologies. The results of our experimentation were analysed also from the point of view of disciplinary learning, comparing the students’ performances with the results of a test of a previous cohort of students who attended the same course.