Challenges in Evaluation in Education and Guidance: A Perspective from 2020

Abstract

Last year, the “Evaluation in Education and Guidance” track was celebrated in León during the seventh edition of TEEM. This year, the conference returns to Salamanca with a new format; an online conference consisting of different activities such as keynote speakers, round tables and debates. As in previous editions, the papers presented to the Evaluation in Education and Guidance track have reflected on the current challenges of educational assessment, revolving mainly around two topics: student assessment during the COVID-19 pandemic and competence assessment in higher education. The authors explained the main findings and conclusions of their papers through publicly available video presentations, and the Chairs organized a Delphi-based debate activity in order to collectively reflect on the two aforementioned topics. To that end, the Chairs prepared an open-ended questionnaire consisting of nine questions so that the authors could express their opinions. Then, a live session ensued in which the Chairs explained the different points of view on each issue and the authors debated them. This paper presents an overview of the papers submitted to the track, as well as a summary of the main conclusions that emerged from the questionnaire and the live session.