homework@home, 300 middle school students followed by university students

(ANSA) - TURIN, APRIL 27 - Three hundred lower secondary school students, 9 schools in 6 different Italian cities, 100 tutors from 3 universities for a total of 9,200 hours of tutoring and 1,000 of specific training.

   These are the numbers of the 2023 edition of homework@casa, a project born from the collaboration between the De Agostini Foundation and the University of Turin, which this year - after Milan, Turin, Novara, Rome and Naples - also arrives in Palermo with a increasingly relevant nationwide.

    Launched in 2021 with the aim of combating educational poverty and early school leaving, in just three years it was transformed into a programmatic intervention that saw the number of participating schools grow rapidly and created an educating community involving teachers, pupils and families of secondary schools in first degree, professors and university students for a total of nearly 500 people.

The first two editions of the project immediately revealed an increase in self-esteem, self-confidence and participation in class activities in the participating pupils and, subsequently, also an improvement in school results.

    "compiti@casa" is a support path for learning the humanities, mathematics and scientific disciplines aimed at lower secondary school pupils who are supported in the afternoon study by university students as tutors.

The activities are carried out remotely using a digital learning environment designed and developed by the University of Turin which allows synchronous training activities and the sharing of interactive contents.

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