Skills and evaluation. Towards a model of authentic assessment of learning

Abstract

This reflection arises from the experience of two teachers of the Faculty of Education and Languages and aims to improve teaching performance, particularly the evaluation of the learning processes of students. Our foundation is that we are immersed in a complex world, often called an information and knowledge society, which set the challenge to the professional to transform the information he receives into useful knowledge for his life. Therefore, we analyze education from a complex and holistic perspective. We believe that despite contextual challenges, teachers continue using the same teaching and evaluation practices. We insist that learning assessment processes must also evolve simultaneously with social change processes. The Evaluation Model we propose to contribute to the development of teaching skills; it is also coherent with the Nicaraguan reality and envisions educational evaluation from a broad perspective.