Quale auto-valutazione in Università per i professionisti di domani? Percorsi operativi tra riflessioni didattiche e ricerca educativa

Journal title EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES
Author/s Serafina Pastore
Publishing Year 2015 Issue 2015/1
Language Italian Pages 14 P. 51-64 File size 93 KB
DOI 10.3280/ERP2015-001004
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How can be realized self-assessment in Higher Education context? Starting from a critical review of institutional changes in University, the paper focus on main issues and problems faced by educational research on selfassessment, particularly at international level. It then tries to identify future research pathways on this topic. Finally the article presents some key aspects of self-assessment. In the assessment for learning perspective, selfassessment is related to the processes of learning and developing reflection competencies, metacognition and self-regulation fundamental prerequisites for future professionals.

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Serafina Pastore, Quale auto-valutazione in Università per i professionisti di domani? Percorsi operativi tra riflessioni didattiche e ricerca educativa in "EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES" 1/2015, pp 51-64, DOI: 10.3280/ERP2015-001004