Self-assessment of professional competences in teachers

Abstract

As part of the adaptation of university degrees to the European Higher Education Area, the competences students should acquire become one of the cornerstones of this new way of understanding the teaching-learning process. This paper analyzes the perception that students in the Primary School Teacher degree at the University of Huelva (in their different specialties) have about the acquisition of generic competences, using a scale previously used in the University of Seville, the validity and reliability have been proven. THE main results show that the valuation of the acquisition of competences among future teachers of the University of Huelva is positive to have obtained an average of 2.81 on 4, with the cooperation factor which has obtained a higher valuation. In the adjustment factor students with best academic results who show better adaptation capacity to different situations. The ability to plan is a competence that students with best academic results and students of Primary Education and Foreign Languages have expressed a greater extent than the rest. Students of Special Education have expressed to dominate design competence better than students of other specialties. While, in relation to communication older students claim to possess this competence further.

Keywords

• autoevaluación
• competencias
• maestros