Representaciones sociales de docentes sobre evaluación formativa

Abstract

Assessment is meant to be meaningful and able to impact teaching and learning processes. Therefore, teachers should innovate and address educational current needs. This research report accounts for teachers’ social representations regarding formative assessment practices by means of social networks. This inquiry aims at making sense of pedagogical implications and reflections of this assessment perspective. Regarding methodological issues, a grounded theory study was adopted under the qualitative research logic; the interpretative nature of this approach allowed to have a full scope of the social reality framed by teachers. Thus, findings suggest representations of different order, accepting and dismissing this inclusion in their teaching practices. Results also evidence the need to reshape a non-instrumental insight of social networks usage, and democratize evaluation tasks online.