UNIVERSITY TEACHERS’ TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE AND MOBILE EDUCATION

In this paper we intend to observe the effectiveness of a remedial course for the fulfil- ment of the educational lacks (O.F.A) accrued by those freshmen who did not pass the entrance test of the University of Genoa. We offer a quantitative and qualitative analysis of scores obtained by students before and after the training intervention and of their answers to a final evaluation questionnaire. The topic is of a great interest in the field of higher education, particularly in relation to the design and administration of remedial courses in the basic skills of literacy and mathematical literacy [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. In 2019 the University of Genoa's Teaching Commission began to work in the direction suggested by the Skills Agenda for Europe [7] and the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) [8], reflecting on how to assess the initial knowledge required of newly enrolled students and on the allocation and fulfilment of any Additional Educational Lacks (O.F.A.) that they may have accrued.