Perspectiva tecnológica de la evaluación educativa en la Universidad

Abstract

Universities find themselves in a period of reflection about the content matter and the processes of transformation that have rapidly been triggered and are shaping the so-called society of knowledge and information. We relate to management and development of learning because the main function of University, as an institution, has been, from its origins in the Middle Ages, to plan, coordinate and transmit knowledge. Having started the first decade of the 21st century, this goal has been reformulated with the aim of contributing to the development of certain general and transferable competencies and of other more specific ones, derived from a body of technical knowledge. When teaching at University revolves around competencies, the organizational changes do not exclusively affect, therefore, the teaching methodology, but they also have an effect on the processes of learning and assessment. In the present article, we try to set out this situation under a theoretical and methodological approach, at the same time we formulate some current proposals for the problem of the assessment of learning at University