Title:	SELF ASSESSMENT: A CRUCIAL PROCESS IN E-TRAINING
Author(s):	Paola Nicolini , Tamara Lapucci , Chiara Moroni
ISBN:	978-972-8924-69-0
Editors:	Kinshuk, Demetrios G Sampson, J. Michael Spector, Pedro Isaías and Dirk Ifenthaler
Year:	2008
Edition:	Single
Keywords:	Training, Teaching-learning strategies, Conceptual change, Negotiation, Assessment
Type:	Full Paper
First Page:	253
Last Page:	260
Language:	English
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Paper Abstract:	The paper offers a discussion about the concept of training from a psychological point of view. Training is a process that concerns a life long learning perspective, especially if referred to e-learning and on line activities. In this paper we present the Child Observation in School Context Workshop, an experience of e-training at Macerata University. We intend to stress the crucial relevance of self assessment in training processes that involve adults’ participation. We are going to describe the methodology used in the Workshop, according to the on line educational context. Besides peer discussion and negotiation, that we described in other researches, in this study we pay more attention to the final phase of the training process. We found the importance to arrange a moment in which participants are requested to evaluate their involvement both in terms of process and outcomes. In the instructional design it is significant to plan a phase in which teachers or trainers share with participants the criterions through which they will make the assessment. We are going to show the differences, in terms of curricular results, between two editions of the same on line course: in the first one we did not share the criterions of assessment with participants, on the contrary in the second edition we dedicated a special moment to this activity. The results show a little increase of excellent outcomes and a modest decrease of the sufficient results in the second edition of the course.
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