Percepciones de los estudiantes de Bachillerato General Unificado de la Unidad Educativa “Gualaceo” de la ciudad de Gualaceo, respecto de la evaluación que aplican sus docentes en el proceso instructivo-formativo

Abstract

The current research is related to the perception of students in the Bachillerato General Unificado Program at Gualaceo K-12 School of the city of Gualaceo regarding the assessment applied by the schoolteachers throughout the instructive-formative educational process. The objective of this research is to analyze the pedagogical approaches related to the assessment implemented by the teachers. In order to collect data, a sample of 177 bachillerato students was used, and interviews and bibliographic reviews as techniques. Furthermore, the questionnaire was used as a research tool. By means of this, it was possible to analyze the results to define the pedagogical approaches related to the assessment applied by the teachers. Consequently, it was concluded that the prevailing approaches in the assessment are, firstly, conductivist since it is useful to grade and promote, and the students are evaluated unindirectionally, and, secondly, constructivist since teachers evaluate to compare achievements, help and reflect on what it is done. Hence, it is suggested training and implementation of tool to evaluate teachers’ performance basing on the perceptions of students along with a constructivist approach