Self-assessment of the teaching process in 1st grade schools: schoolteachers’ views and suggestions
Published:
Jun 9, 2016
Keywords:
Assessment of educational work assessment culture assessment quality necessity of assessment improvement of education provided
Abstract
The assessment of educational work constitutes a major educational issue. Up until 1982, the institution of the ‘inspector’ dominated Greece while from that day onwards till today there has been lack of assessment even if the state has at times attended to pass laws that yet remained nugatory. Assessment has been associated with several efforts for educational reform and has become a battlefield among educational bureaus. Never has the view that assessment consists an important scientific field of education with major socio-political dimensions been taken into serious consideration.
In the line of this whole problematic and on the occasion of the passage of the last law 3848/2010 on the self-assessment of educational work, we have conducted quantitative research in Primary Schools in Magnesia. Due to time pressure, we have selected a reduced scale review with the completion of questionnaires and the exploration of the views of local educators. The sample comprised 195 Primary teachers of all subjects in the whole Magnesia district.
The research was orientated towards the detection of teachers’ views on assessment. Their opinions on the necessity of assessment have been particularly investigated as well as those on the connection of assessment with the improvement of the quality of education provided. The results reveal the teachers’ desire for assessment even though the lack of an assessment culture brings out the fact that they do not know what kind of assessment they want. On the contrary, they comprehend and accept all the parameters that are related to quality in education and wish for the purpose of assessment to be the improvement of the education provided.
In the line of this whole problematic and on the occasion of the passage of the last law 3848/2010 on the self-assessment of educational work, we have conducted quantitative research in Primary Schools in Magnesia. Due to time pressure, we have selected a reduced scale review with the completion of questionnaires and the exploration of the views of local educators. The sample comprised 195 Primary teachers of all subjects in the whole Magnesia district.
The research was orientated towards the detection of teachers’ views on assessment. Their opinions on the necessity of assessment have been particularly investigated as well as those on the connection of assessment with the improvement of the quality of education provided. The results reveal the teachers’ desire for assessment even though the lack of an assessment culture brings out the fact that they do not know what kind of assessment they want. On the contrary, they comprehend and accept all the parameters that are related to quality in education and wish for the purpose of assessment to be the improvement of the education provided.
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