L'APPRENDIMENTO COLLABORATIVO NELLE SCUOLE: UN APPROCCIO SPERIMENTALE INTERDISCIPLINARE TRA PEDAGOGIA E ECONOMIA

This work discusses the methodological issues related to the design, to the implementation and to the data analysis of a field experiment, part of the project “Piccoli che Valgono” funded by “Fondazione Con i Bambini”, that will take place in some Italian lower secondary schools and aimed to measure the efficacy of peer-learning and peer-assessment. These activities represent zero-cost interventions in education with a high potential for fostering learning and social skills of pupils. There is a fruitful debate on how to design and implement peer-learning activities and on how to make them effective and assessable. After mentioning the liter-ature on peer-learning in both education sciences (interested in how to implement the activities and on their pedagogical princi-ple) and economics (mainly focused on the measurement and the isolation of the effects of peer-learning activities), we describe the experimental protocol and the main methodological issues con-cerning the measurement of the outcome, the implementation in class and the design.