Learning Assessment in Higer Education Evaluación de los aprendizajes en La educación superior

Abstract

Learning evaluation is a systematic, permanent and complex process that seeks to understand the progress and learning achievements acquired by students, based on various social and educational approaches and currents, generating changes over time. The teacher, as a facilitator of learning, must provide spaces and various evaluation strategies that promote it, taking into account the diversity of the learners, their needs, the characteristics of the context where they are carried out and empirical evidence. This document raises and promotes reflections on the challenges of evaluating learning in higher education, under a qualitative approach based on the documentary review available and updated in the formulation of the current panorama of the doctoral thesis called “Teaching decisions in academic evaluation in an institution of higher education.” In this journey, challenges related to the globalization process, educational quality, educational scenarios and empirical evidence resulting from research that support the described challenges can be evident. The need to rethink the pedagogical work is concluded, which allows us to respond to the needs, promoting the formative and integral function in the learners with the participation of each of its actors.