Some thoughts about the assessing competence of lecturers in Higher Education

Abstract

The contributions presented in this article are based on the experience of the authors. In recent years, the authors have been working in collaboration with university teachers of different branches of knowledge. This paper presents a reflection about the need to establish a common language and terminology to facilitate a clear, effective and efficient communication and transfer of experiences and innovation. Secondly, it focuses on two aspects highly valued by teachers regarding innovation and assessment: a) innovation concerning the distribution of the power of assessment, introducing alternative strategies to promote participation such as self-assessment, peer-assessment and coassessment; and b) those aspects related with the incorporation and use of ICT. Some resources that might be useful to improve the assessment competence of teachers are presented. Those resources are based on sustainable learning and assessment, however, these will only occur in if teachers become facilitators to promote students ownership of their learning process.

Keywords

• competencia
• evaluación
• e-evaluación
• participación
• autoevaluación
• evaluación entre iguales
• co-evaluación
• evaluación sostenible