Assessment procedures as part of the counselling process at the university

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ABSTRACT

Lately we are witnessing a great number of changes at the university which provide the opportunity to introduce innovations. In this study we focus on the perspectives regarding the assessment field and the measure in which they facilitate the counseling task at university. In the first place, the main features of the “learning-oriented assessment” are presented, the attention is focused on the dimensions that are considered basic: features of assessment tasks, students’ involvement in the assessment process through strategies such as self assessment, peer assessment, co-assessment and the role of feedback as feed forward. Secondly, the basic elements that constitute an assessment procedure are specified: assessment object, results and products, assessment tasks, criteria, people who assess and assessment tools and techniques. Those should be considered when designing and implementing assessment at the university. Each of these elements is defined and characterized briefly with the aim of maintaining a common language in the educational field. Lastly an example of an assessment procedure is presented and other possible good practices in university learning assessment sources are provided. The procedure presented in this paper has been designed for the assessment of the following specific competence: “group design of a process for the assessment/evaluation implemented in the subject assessment in education”. The procedure is presented in its LAMS version and in a descriptive matrix. The examples of the procedures presented are based on different research projects that have been developed in the last years.