This article presents outcomes from the research project “Seeing Between the Lines” and aims to investigate how visual communication can foster the development of the ability to identify the key information in a text and reformulate it. The research was undertaken in a primary school in Verrès (AO) during the 2024/2025 school year and involved a total of 25 students from two fourth-grade and one fifth-grade level, who received an in structional intervention divided into three learning units, in accordance with the principles of multimedia learning and cognitive load theory (Mayer, 2009; Sweller, van Merriënboer, Paas, 2019). The research also included a pre-test and post-test, both consisting of a structured assessment—the Summarizing Test (Menichetti, 2018)— and a task involving producing a summary. The pre- and post-tests yielded statistically significant results in both components for the two fourth-grade levels, and in one of the two components for the fifth-grade level.
L’articolo presenta alcuni esiti del progetto di ricerca “Vedere tra le righe”, finanziato dalla Fondazione CRT, e in tende indagare come la comunicazione visiva possa favorire lo sviluppo dell’abilità di identificare le informazioni principali di un testo e riformularle. L’esperienza di ricerca si è svolta in una scuola primaria di Verrès (AO) nell’a.s. 2024/2025 e ha coinvolto complessivamente 25 allievi di due classi quarte e una classe quinta, a cui è stato proposto un intervento didattico articolato in tre unità di apprendimento, secondo i principi dell’apprendimento multimediale e della teorica del carico cognitivo (Mayer, 2009; Sweller, van Merriënboer, Paas, 2019). La ricerca ha inoltre previsto un pre-test e un post-test, entrambi composti da una prova strutturata, il Summarizing Test (Menichetti, 2018) e una di produzione del riassunto. Il pre- e il post-test hanno restituito risultati statisticamente significativi in entrambe le prove per le classi IV, e solo in una delle due per la classe V.
Angelini, C., Piu, A. (2025). Riassumere con il supporto delle immagini. Un percorso di ricerca nella scuola primaria. PEDAGOGIA OGGI, 2/2025(23), 145-152.
Riassumere con il supporto delle immagini. Un percorso di ricerca nella scuola primaria
Cinzia Angelini;
2025-01-01
Abstract
This article presents outcomes from the research project “Seeing Between the Lines” and aims to investigate how visual communication can foster the development of the ability to identify the key information in a text and reformulate it. The research was undertaken in a primary school in Verrès (AO) during the 2024/2025 school year and involved a total of 25 students from two fourth-grade and one fifth-grade level, who received an in structional intervention divided into three learning units, in accordance with the principles of multimedia learning and cognitive load theory (Mayer, 2009; Sweller, van Merriënboer, Paas, 2019). The research also included a pre-test and post-test, both consisting of a structured assessment—the Summarizing Test (Menichetti, 2018)— and a task involving producing a summary. The pre- and post-tests yielded statistically significant results in both components for the two fourth-grade levels, and in one of the two components for the fifth-grade level.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.


