EVALUATION AS LEARNING

When the arrow hits the target

Evaluation is an educational phenomenon that conditions the entire teaching and learning process. That is why it is decisive to ask about its nature, its purpose and the ethical, social and political dimensions that permeate it.

This is not an essentially technical phenomenon but rather an ethical phenomenon. Consequently, it is essential to ask who it benefits when it is done and who it harms, what values it serves and what values it destroys.

Evaluation can serve many purposes. The important thing is to use it as learning, as a way of understanding to improve the practices it addresses. The metaphor of the arrow hitting the target serves to understand, in a clear way, that the evaluation can be done to classify, compare, select or, simply, rate. It is necessary, however, to use it to learn and to improve student learning, the dynamics of the centers, the training of teachers and the implementation of reforms.

INDEX EXTRACT

PROLOGUE TO THE 2nd EDITION

I. EVALUATION AND EDUCATIONAL CENTERS

1. The evaluation of educational centers: risks, conditions, indicators and consequences.

2. Culture that evaluation generates in schools.

3. Meta-evaluation of schools: the path of learning, rigor, improvement and ethics.

II. EVALUATION AND TEACHING

4. Evaluation of the system and teacher learning.

5. Evaluation of teacher training.

6. Evaluation of Educational Reforms.

7. Tell me how you evaluate and I will tell you what type of professional (and person) you are.

III. EVALUATION AND STUDENTS

8. Student evaluation as a learning process for teachers.

9. Learning about evaluation through experience.

10. To evaluate is to understand: from the technical conception to the critical dimension.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

SUBJECTS

Assessment

Pedagogical update

Educational innovation

School organization

Miguel Ángel Santos Guerra is a professor of Didactics and School Organization at the University of Malaga. He has been a teacher at all levels of the educational system: primary school teacher, high school teacher and university professor at Complutense and other national and foreign universities. He has written numerous books and articles on school organization, educational evaluation, teacher training and gender in education.