EVALUATION FROM A STUDENT-CENTRED PERSPECTIVE: COMPARATIVE STUDY

The study aims at identifying the perceptions of a group of students from several technical faculties regarding the educational evaluation practices in high school and university from the perspective of a student-centred approach to education. The requirement to develop open, flexible educational strategies that are tailored to social and individual needs and that would foster the development of each child's potential is endorsed by many national and international educational policy documents that promote a student-centred approach to education and a tangible adaptation of the system to the student's requirements and possibilities. In the broad sense, evaluation concerns the efficiency of the education system, seen as a component of the social system, specifically the efficiency of the relationship between the financial and material resources invested by society and the results of the education, results that are materialized in the acquired skills and quality of the labour force. Considered in a narrower sense, evaluation regards the efficiency of the relationship between the proposed objectives and the results obtained by the students. In order to identify the opinions of the students concerning the frequency of student-centred evaluation practices in pre-university and university education we have applied a questionnaire with closed questions and then analysed the items concerning: educating the pupils/students in regards to the criteria and methods of assessing their performance, centring the evaluations on essential aspects of the studied content, access to the recommended studying resources, the presence of practices that would stimulate self-assessment, the objectivity of the evaluation. (C) 2019 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK