Dr Tulio Barrios Bulling is a pedagogue, consultant, educational researcher, and administrator. During his professional career, he has held different leading positions at diverse educational levels. Currently, he has been appointed Headmaster at the recently opened Colegio Las Condes in Santiago de Chile. Also, he maintains a Professorship in Learning Assessment and Didactic Congruence at Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello. He publishes regularly in international journals and was elected IVETA Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean. Among his many interests, one may highlight teachers’ leadership and performance assessment, skills and competencies development, curriculum alignment, teaching strategies, and educational management.
He will be co-presenting the following presentation with Laura Barrios Valenzuela.
Effective assessment practice at vulnerable schools in times of pandemic
The purpose of the current study is to present the results of some research conducted at 12 vulnerable schools in the central region of Chile. One of the main challenges that online teaching implies has been precisely the evaluation of learning. Teachers who work in vulnerable contexts, may find the assessment process even more demanding.
The presenters will aim to shed light on the most frequently used assessment tools at the targeted school. Among them, which ones are perceived as more efficient by teachers and what reasons are given to support this perception.
The following objectives guided the present investigation.
- To identify the evaluation instruments most used by teachers of vulnerable schools.
- To determine those considered as more and less efficient in this context
- To know the reasons associated with its degree of effectiveness.
- To propose some actions to strengthen the evaluation process.
The results evidenced that the most widely used type of evaluation was the creation and development of projects, closely followed by short-answer questions. Multiple-choice questions and problem solving also obtained high valuations. Research work, questionnaires solving, and the completion questions were other techniques that scored high.
According to the informants, written tests, dramatization, work group, and online interrogations were less effective assessment instruments in their school environments.