Study of the perception of senior pedagogy students from a University in the north of Chile regarding the learning evaluation process

Abstract

This research is the final part of the Master’s degree in Higher Education, with a Major in University Teaching from the University Arturo Prat, and it seeks to acknowledge and interpret the perception of the Teaching Education Program students on the evaluation of what they have learned throughout their academic life, training process and their projection as mediators of the teaching and learning process in their professional life. Methodologically, it is related to an interpretative paradigm used to inquire into the conceptions of reality and not on its causative effects. It is designed to know if the students perceive evaluations as a key formative process in their professional development that will serve as an instrument and gives them the needed experience to be used strategically in their professional life. The research contains, in the first stage, the approach to the problem and the theoretical contributions regarding evaluations in universities both at a national and international level, as well as key concepts about the evaluation of learning. Subsequently, a semi-structured interview is conducted with senior year students of the Teaching Education Program from a university located in extreme northern Chile on their perception of the evaluations of learning. Finally, all the data provided is analyzed qualitatively regarding the students´ perceptions on the evaluations as well as the strengths and weaknesses they possess one year prior to exercising their profession as teachers.