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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025): Transformative and innovative teaching processes in Higher Education: Fostering education for sustainability

Promoting self-evaluation: From pre-service teacher training to the classroom

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/exioa1-2025oa20581
Submitted
luglio 7, 2025
Published
2025-07-11

Abstract

The scientific literature agrees on the need to strengthen the alliance between learning and assessment since the latter plays a strategic function in directing towards deep training experiences or towards superficial acquisitions. Likewise, there is consensus in recognizing the ability to evaluate and evaluate oneself as a life skill for making informed decisions, critically exercising one’s rights and governing complexity. From this perspective, it becomes urgent to consider (self-)evaluative competence as an educational objective for the school system starting from childhood. The current national regulations open up interesting work spaces in this direction; however, to take these opportunities, teachers need to be well trained. Having personal self-evaluation experience in pre-service training can act as a facilitating factor in didactic transposition into classroom context. To study this hypothesis, empirical research was conducted by administering a semi-structured questionnaire to future teachers attending their pre-service training. The results show a weak diffusion of self-evaluation practices in the university educational path and, more generally, a limited presence of evaluation practices that enhance student agency. The reflection on the field data in relation to the theoretical-conceptual framework coming from the literature highlights a gap between “declared” and “acted”.

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