La evaluación de los aprendizajes en Educación General Básica desde una visión constructivista

Abstract

This monograph theoretically demonstrates the importance of evaluation on General Basic Education (GBE) as part of the learning process from a constructivist approach. This topic arises from the fact that the results of evaluations are frequently employed to assign a grade to a student only, and does not become part of the learning process in order to improve it. Moreover, the evaluation into the educational context is seen as an isolated element of the learning process. In fact, this investigation pretends to answer the following questions: how is evaluation held, from a constructivist approach? From constructivism, what is evaluation focused like? What is the distribution of roles of teacher and students in a constructivist evaluation? What can the teacher do to apply a well-founded evaluation with a constructivist approach? The methodology to be used in this project is based on literary review of books and magazine articles, which let us respond to the planned objectives and the research questions. The obtained conclusions in this research project show that evaluation in then learning process from a constructivist vision, let students build up their own knowledge, develop an autonomous ability towards learning and mainly encourages the opportunity of continue learning, have an auto-evaluation, co -valuation and hetero-evaluation.