Current Trends in Student Assessment Practices and Their Underlying Philosophy

Abstract

fter we explain, initially, the differences between assessing the learning process and assessing a student’s performance, we analyse all the parameters on the basis of which a student and his/her performance are assessed. Finally, we present and evaluate all current trends that modernise the assessment methods and techniques related to the learning process and student performance, and also stress the basic logic and philosophy that govern these new approaches and also the points that make them different from what was applied in the field of student assessment until recently.