Italy

Since 1978, Applied Scholastics Italy has expanded to 25 groups throughout the country, including schools, Study Technology centres, tutoring centres and individual tutors.

Today, there is an Applied Scholastics office in Milan with 25 groups throughout the country, including schools, Study Technology centres, tutoring centres and individual tutors.

In 1999, the Ministry of Education approved a course on Study Technology for delivery to Italian teachers as part of their continuing education.

In 2001 and 2002, Applied Scholastics Italy conducted a project called “Giovani in Divisa” (“Youth in Uniform”) with the support of the National Syndicate of Police. This project tutored young people who wanted to enlist in the police force but whose education was lacking.

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The project began in September 2001 with 43 students and five trainers learning Study Technology. When the pilot project concluded the following month, every graduate of the project who took their law enforcement qualification exams passed them.

In 2002, some 300 students participated in the “Youth in Uniform” programme in 12 cities: Pompeii, Milan, Turin, Genova, Bologna, Forli, Vicenza, Florence, Rome, Salerno, Avellino and Agrigento. Again, every pilot project graduate who took their state examinations passed.

From 1993 to 1999 I ran a research project on 'The quality of communication in the learning and teaching process' for the Italian Ministry of Education in Rome, during which the Study Technology was broadly tested in teacher training and student projects. The activity is fully documented in the research report with teacher and student statements, material and tests which show not only the full workability of the technology but the urgent need of it to improve the quality of the Italian education system.... “In one school, for example, where I have been consulting a group of teachers in charge of 'handicapped students,' the improvements have been astonishing. One child who couldn't speak at all (he communicated only in writing), after one school year was fully recovered. Another teacher I met 10 years after her training reported to a new group of teachers in training that thanks to the Study Technology she had salvaged her daughter's education. “An Inspector from the Ministry of Education who has been following my research project stated the following in the preface he wrote for my final report: 'The content of the report looks like something we have been waiting for a long time; it is an effective and concrete synthesis capable of putting into reality what is expected today of educational reform.'” — Professor Giuliana Modonesi, Expert on the formative process, Rome, Italy