Director of Academic UCAM has highlighted the importance of reviewing strategies and assessment instruments
The San Antonio de Murcia Catholic University inaugurated this morning the Second Conference on Good Teaching Practices under the theme 'Innovation applied to the evaluation at the University'.
The event, organized by the degrees in Early Childhood and Primary educational institution, allowed attendees to share experiences involving good educational practice and to know its impact on the acquisition of skills by students.
During the inauguration, the Director of Academic Planning at the UCAM, and associate dean of the degrees in Early Childhood and Elementary, María del Mar Pintado, highlighted the importance of a review of assessment tools and strategies, and noted some of the difficulties facing the university system in evaluative matter, as is the increase in quarterly subjects, "what makes this area be studied superficially."
Similarly, in research, stressed that if this teaching is separated, "there is no progress."
For his part, the Vice Chancellor for Research, Estrella Nunez said, on the same line, that "college is not only transmits knowledge, but also have to create it."
Professor of Education, Juan Manuel Escudero Muñoz, recently named Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Santiago de Compostela, and professor at the University of Murcia, gave the inaugural lecture 'innovative evaluative experiences in college.
Peculiarities and coincidences'.
The Professor has said that in evaluation must not only take into account the student, but in this area are also implicit teaching and teachers;
assessment of qualifications, and institutions.
"It can not be gleaned from student assessment other parameters, evaluation encompasses everything".
The Day continues this afternoon.
Source: UCAM