STUDENTS' INVOLVEMENT IN FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL

Authors

  • Carmen Maria Ţîru

Keywords:

formative assessmentinstruments, personal involvement, formative assessment activity, portfolio.

Abstract

At any level of the educational process the common efforts of the teacher and
students are reflected on the obtained and evaluated students’ results. What is the
students’ involvement and decision in setting up the assessment criteria and
instruments to asses these results at university level? How will students’ results be
affected by the possibility to choose some of these instruments and the number of
participations in the formative examination? How will the formative assessment and
the portfolio sustain personal and group progress? These are important questions for
which this research will identify some possible analyses and conclusions. The
research sample consisted in 71 second year students who were investigated during
the first semester of 2018-2019 university year. Following the proposed assessment
modalities and criteria, other teachers at university level could optimise the teaching
process and the learning performance of their students.

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2019-06-01