Evaluation of learning

Is a fundamental part of teaching-learning process in this regard is that the future teachers acquire the basic notions respecyo to review its nature, principles, characteristics and the role it plays in the process, so it you know and apply a series useful tools for evaluating the educational process.

 

Evaluation permits the critical question to be asked and answered: have the goals and objectives of new curriculum have been met?  It assesses individual achievement to satisfy external requirements, and provides information that can be used to improve curriculum, and to document accomplishments or failures. Evaluation can provide feedback and motivation for continued improvement for learners, faculty, and innovative curriculum developers. To ensure that important questions are answered and relevant needs met, it is necessary to be methodical in designing a process of evaluation.

In the last decade, we have observed the rapid evolution of assessment methods used in medical education from the traditional ones towards more sophisticated evaluation strategies.

Single methods were replaced by multiple methods, and paper-and-pencil tests were replaced by computerized tests. The normative pass/fail decisions moved to assessment standards, and the assessment of knowledge has been replaced by the assessment of competence. 

Efforts have been also made to standardize subjective judgments, to develop a set of performance standards, to generate assessment evidence from multiple sources, and to replace the search for knowledge with the search for "reflection in action" in a working environment.