The INAPP Dispositive for the Formative and Authentic Assessment of Key Competences in IVET

In Italy, significant progress has been made in the lifelong learning strategy. However, regarding key competences, the policies and related technical-methodological frameworks do not yet provide sufficient and homogeneous references to training designers, neither to teachers and trainers. INAPP carried out (2018-2023) a research aimed at designing and testing a dispositive for the formative and authentic assessment of four key competences in the IVET System (EU Recommendation 2018): personal, social, and learning to learn; citizenship; entrepreneurship; cultural awareness and expression. This contribution presents the conceptual basis and design of the assessment dispositive at the conclusion of its testing, which involved over 50 training institutions in 15 Italian Regions. The testing has provided promising indications that seem to confirm the formative capacity of the dispositive and the informative potential of the reality-based assessment tool (reality tasks) to discern different levels of mastery among students and adopt appropriate teaching-learning strategies.