Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement

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Autor(a) principal: Flores, Maria Assunção
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Brown, Gavin, Pereira, Diana, Coutinho, Clara Pereira, Santos, Patricia, Pinheiro, Claudia
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/68349
Resumo: After 20 years of the Bologna Declaration, Portuguese universities claim to be implementing student-centred and involved assessment practices. Student conceptions of assessment matter when innovations and reforms in assessment practices are being implemented. This study is part of a larger research project entitled "Assessment in higher education: the potential of alternative methods" funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Government Funding Agency) (PTDC/MHCCED/2703/2014). This paper surveys a large sample (N = 5549) of Portuguese students in five public universities with a Portuguese version of the Students Conceptions of Assessment (SCoA-VI) inventory, previously validated in Brazil. Confirmatory factor analysis recovered the eight SCoA factors reported in the Brazilian context. Differences in mean score for the eight factors were trivial for institutional and student factors. Overall, students agreed that assessment for student improvement was not ignored. Scale inter-correlations revealed interesting inverse relations between improvement and irrelevance functions.
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spelling Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievementConceptions of assessmentHigher educationStudents' conceptionsImprovementAccountabilitySocial SciencesAfter 20 years of the Bologna Declaration, Portuguese universities claim to be implementing student-centred and involved assessment practices. Student conceptions of assessment matter when innovations and reforms in assessment practices are being implemented. This study is part of a larger research project entitled "Assessment in higher education: the potential of alternative methods" funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Government Funding Agency) (PTDC/MHCCED/2703/2014). This paper surveys a large sample (N = 5549) of Portuguese students in five public universities with a Portuguese version of the Students Conceptions of Assessment (SCoA-VI) inventory, previously validated in Brazil. Confirmatory factor analysis recovered the eight SCoA factors reported in the Brazilian context. Differences in mean score for the eight factors were trivial for institutional and student factors. Overall, students agreed that assessment for student improvement was not ignored. Scale inter-correlations revealed interesting inverse relations between improvement and irrelevance functions.Portuguese national funds through the FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology) within the framework of the CIEC (Research Center for Child Studies of the University of Minho) project under the reference UIDB/00317/2020The project reported in this paper was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Government Funding Agency) (PTDC/MHCCED/2703/2014) and co-financed by European Regional Development Funds (FEDER), Competitiveness and Internationalization Operational Program (POCI01-0145-FEDER-007562).SpringerUniversidade do MinhoFlores, Maria AssunçãoBrown, GavinPereira, DianaCoutinho, Clara PereiraSantos, PatriciaPinheiro, Claudia20202020-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/68349engFlores, M.A., Brown, G., Pereira, D. et al. Portuguese university students’ conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement. High Educ 79, 377–394 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-019-00415-20018-156010.1007/s10734-019-00415-2https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-019-00415-2info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-10-07T01:20:45Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/68349Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:04:56.321629Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
title Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
spellingShingle Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
Flores, Maria Assunção
Conceptions of assessment
Higher education
Students' conceptions
Improvement
Accountability
Social Sciences
title_short Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
title_full Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
title_fullStr Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
title_full_unstemmed Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
title_sort Portuguese university students' conceptions of assessment: taking responsibility for achievement
author Flores, Maria Assunção
author_facet Flores, Maria Assunção
Brown, Gavin
Pereira, Diana
Coutinho, Clara Pereira
Santos, Patricia
Pinheiro, Claudia
author_role author
author2 Brown, Gavin
Pereira, Diana
Coutinho, Clara Pereira
Santos, Patricia
Pinheiro, Claudia
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Flores, Maria Assunção
Brown, Gavin
Pereira, Diana
Coutinho, Clara Pereira
Santos, Patricia
Pinheiro, Claudia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Conceptions of assessment
Higher education
Students' conceptions
Improvement
Accountability
Social Sciences
topic Conceptions of assessment
Higher education
Students' conceptions
Improvement
Accountability
Social Sciences
description After 20 years of the Bologna Declaration, Portuguese universities claim to be implementing student-centred and involved assessment practices. Student conceptions of assessment matter when innovations and reforms in assessment practices are being implemented. This study is part of a larger research project entitled "Assessment in higher education: the potential of alternative methods" funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (Government Funding Agency) (PTDC/MHCCED/2703/2014). This paper surveys a large sample (N = 5549) of Portuguese students in five public universities with a Portuguese version of the Students Conceptions of Assessment (SCoA-VI) inventory, previously validated in Brazil. Confirmatory factor analysis recovered the eight SCoA factors reported in the Brazilian context. Differences in mean score for the eight factors were trivial for institutional and student factors. Overall, students agreed that assessment for student improvement was not ignored. Scale inter-correlations revealed interesting inverse relations between improvement and irrelevance functions.
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