Planning and Evaluation Skills: A Search With the Teachers of Italian Schools

This contribution proposes a reflection on the centrality of the construct of competence, which, especially in the last twenty years, has taken a decisive role in educational contexts. The implications of this innovation are important from the point of view of planning and evaluation of training interventions. The work attempts to reconcile the theoretical aspects and those teaching practices that require an adaptation of the methodological choices underlying the processes of teaching and learning. "In redefining the formative school task" and that this centrality is demonstrated by the growing attention, recognized both nationally and internationally, to the theme of key skills for active citizenship "(Carroll, 2010, p. 16). The second part presents an experience aimed at training teachers and aims to lead and assist teachers in the various education degrees to acquire, enhance and develop knowledge and skills related to the construction of valid and reliable assessment tools, with reference both to knowledge and skills.