Learning Assessment Improvement Project: Marine Biology Career Assessment Process

Abstract

The evaluation is a regulatory practice of the individual and joint activity of the faculty and students in the teaching/learning process, helping decisively to shape the educational process, improve it and provide feedback. Under this context, the results of the exploratory research of the evaluation process of the faculty and student body of the Marine Biology career of the Peninsula Santa Elena State University, during the 2017-II academic period, are presented. The objective of the work consisted of identifying the perception of the student body during the process of evaluating the performance of the faculty, conducting a literature review to define the basic concepts of the evaluation, and the analysis of the diagnostic instruments developed by technical-academic staff of the MEVALAP project applied in a sample of 120 students and 20 teachers of the career. The results were grouped and categorized according to items related to the fulfillment of objectives, procedures and results of the evaluation practice, where the perceptions and expectations of teachers and students are evaluated. It was identified that the written test is the tool most used by teachers as an evaluative teaching-learning strategy, remaining as a traditional strategy. Based on these inferences, some reflections on the learning evaluation strategies proper to the academic dynamics of the course are presented, which will allow correcting the weaknesses of the evaluative activities applied by the teaching staff.