Participación del alumnado de Educación Superior en su evaluación

Authors

Antonio Bretones RománSalto de línea Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Educación. Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Escolar. Madrid, España.

Abstract

Participation of the High Education students in their assessmentSalto de línea Salto de línea The purpose of this study is to identify to what extent the participation of students in Higher Education in the assessment of their own learning can be objective and accurate, as well as to study the factors or variables involved in the process. This topic, not sufficiently researched in Spain, contribute to a panoramic of the amplitude, nature and conclusions of the empirical research on the basic ways of the participative assessment.Salto de línea The method has been based on critically synthesizing the revisions that were published on this area from 1989 to 2000. Five reviews, involving three different types of assessment participation, are presented here: student self-evaluation, peer assessment and student-teacher joint evaluation or shared assessment.Salto de línea The following items are included in each review: identification, objectives, research procedure, results,main conclusions and personal review. We end up presenting some general conclusions regarding structural issues, validity of results, conditions for success, influence on the learning, recommendations for the teachers and suggestions for future research. From our conclusions, we highlight that, provided that some conditions are fulfilled, the assessment by students of their learning is as valid as the one made by teachers, with an additional positive contribution to learning.

Keywords

Higher Education, self-assessment, peer assessment, co-assessment or collaborative evaluation.