Evaluation of learning: from feedback to self-regulation. The role of technologies

Abstract

This article presents a review of the assessment in the university focused on the information that is provided to students from the analysis of learning outcomes. To do this, define concepts such as feedback, feedforward and self-regulated learning and places within the assessment process. After segmenting the process into its fundamental components, this work stops at the relationship between how assessment information (with special attention to the role of ICT) and the form is provided that such information is used by the students considering variables that affect academic background, academic goals and learning strategies used to achieve the expected learning outcomes in their training curriculum. The article discusses different ways to align these variables and develops a systematic process leading towards self-regulated learning of students. In these different forms of student participation in the assessment process (co-assessment, peer peer assessment and self-assessment) and their implications for the analysis and use of assessment results they are contemplated. The paper concludes by highlighting the role of policy on assessment of learning and its implications for the development of the processes of student participation in assessment