Mixed Approaches e valutazione di programmi complessi : il caso Media Usage in Preschool

The main objective of the paper is to illustrate the theoretical and methodological construction of an evaluation research design "tailored maded" on a complex program by the "Mediamonitor Minor" of the Sapienza University of Rome, "Media Usage in Pre-school. Analysis and Evaluation of the Influence of Digital Media on the Socialization of Children between 0-6". The paper, in particular, illustrates the stages of the research "mixed" strategy designed to analyze and evaluate the effects of the introduction of digital teaching in the kindergarten, with a focus on the observation of changes in attitudes and behavior of children at school and on the development of fields of expertise (the self and the other, images, sounds and colors, etc.), according to Ministerial Guidelines (2012) for the implementation of future skills of children between 3 and 6 years. [Publishers' text].