Development of basic competences of students in Higher Education through Learning Oriented e-Assessment

Abstract

Learning Oriented e-Assessment (e-LOA) is an ICT mediated learning process. It promotes the development of competences that are relevant to both students’ academic present and professional future. In this quasi-experimental research a pretest-posttest design with experimental and control groups is implemented. We believe that the actions of e-LOA favors further development of competences. The results show that in the experimental groups there is an improvement on the level of competence. Significant differences have been found between the pretest and posttest. In addition, there is a consistency between the competences that have improved and those considered in the literature (creativity, problem solving ...). La e-Evaluación orientada al aprendizaje (e-EOA) es un proceso de aprendizaje, mediado por las TIC, que promueve el desarrollo de competencias útiles para el presente académico y el futuro laboral de los estudiantes. En esta investigación cuasi-experimental, con diseño pretest-postest con grupos experimentales y de control, consideramos que las actuaciones de la e-EOA (VI) favorecen un mayor desarrollo de competencias (VD). Los resultados revelan que en los grupos experimentales se mejora el nivel competencial y existen diferencias significativas entre su pretest-postest. Además, se comprueba que las competencias que mejoran son coherentes con la teoría planteada (creatividad, resolución de problemas…).

Keywords

• Learning Oriented Assessment
• e-Assessment
• basic competences
• Higher Education
• Evaluación orientada al aprendizaje
• e-Evaluación
• competencias básicas
• Educación Superior