Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
evaluación procesual
English translation:
formative assessment
Added to glossary by
Charles Davis
Nov 10, 2018 19:25
5 yrs ago
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Spanish term
evaluación procesual
Spanish to English
Social Sciences
Education / Pedagogy
Diversity in schools / Special education
SPAIN. I think this may be what we used to call "continuous assessment", but I've been out of school for a long time and the terminology might have changed.
"La evaluación procesual es aquella que consiste en la valoración continua del aprendizaje del alumnado y de la enseñanza del profesor, mediante la obtención sistemática de datos, análisis de los mismos y toma de decisiones oportuna mientras tiene lugar el propio proceso."
"La evaluación procesual es aquella que consiste en la valoración continua del aprendizaje del alumnado y de la enseñanza del profesor, mediante la obtención sistemática de datos, análisis de los mismos y toma de decisiones oportuna mientras tiene lugar el propio proceso."
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4 +2 | formative assessment |
Charles Davis
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4 | procedural evaluation |
Barbara Cochran, MFA
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4 | ongoing assessment |
Marcelo González
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Nov 24, 2018 04:01: Charles Davis Created KOG entry
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formative assessment
This is NOT continuous assessment, which is a form of assessment of learners/students by teachers, as opposed to final tests/exams. As the sample text you've posted shows, "evaluación procesual" is a method of evaluating the learning and teaching process itself. It's not a method of determinaing students' marks/grades for the course; its aim is to improve the "proceso didáctico".
"EVALUACIÓN PROCESUAL: proporciona la información necesaria para ir orientando y corrigiendo el proceso educativo.
Proporcionará información permanente sobre el alumno y también sobre el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje (evaluación de la organización del aula, de la coordinación del profesorado…)."
http://www.eumed.net/rev/ced/29/fbg.htm
The point is that it collects data during the process; it's ongoing, as opposed to a final evaluation at the end, of a retrospective kind.
These two kinds of assessment are called formative and summative in English (don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger). The terms and concepts were introduced by Michael Scriven in 1967:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formative_assessment
Evaluación procesual is another name for evaluación formativa. The following is from a Mexican master's dissertation on the subject:
"Tipos de evaluación
[...]
Para Castillo (2002), existen etapas en el proceso Enseñanza-Aprendizaje: antes, durante y después; por tal motivo, la tipología de la evaluación estará constituida por tres momentos, a saber: diagnóstica, formativa y sumativa. En cambio, Bonvecchio y Maggioni (2006) le asignan nombres diferentes a la formativa y sumativa, identificándolas como procesual y de resultados, respectivamente. [...]
Formativa.
Pertenece al durante. También conocida como evaluación procesual (Artiles, Mendoza y Yera, 2008), continua, de seguimiento, permanente o proactiva" (pp. 44–46).
https://repositorio.itesm.mx/bitstream/handle/11285/571011/D...
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To be honest, "process evaluation" would express the meaning, but I would use the established term "formative assessment", because that way people who know about educational theory will get what you're talking about (or they can look it up).
"EVALUACIÓN PROCESUAL: proporciona la información necesaria para ir orientando y corrigiendo el proceso educativo.
Proporcionará información permanente sobre el alumno y también sobre el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje (evaluación de la organización del aula, de la coordinación del profesorado…)."
http://www.eumed.net/rev/ced/29/fbg.htm
The point is that it collects data during the process; it's ongoing, as opposed to a final evaluation at the end, of a retrospective kind.
These two kinds of assessment are called formative and summative in English (don't shoot me, I'm only the messenger). The terms and concepts were introduced by Michael Scriven in 1967:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formative_assessment
Evaluación procesual is another name for evaluación formativa. The following is from a Mexican master's dissertation on the subject:
"Tipos de evaluación
[...]
Para Castillo (2002), existen etapas en el proceso Enseñanza-Aprendizaje: antes, durante y después; por tal motivo, la tipología de la evaluación estará constituida por tres momentos, a saber: diagnóstica, formativa y sumativa. En cambio, Bonvecchio y Maggioni (2006) le asignan nombres diferentes a la formativa y sumativa, identificándolas como procesual y de resultados, respectivamente. [...]
Formativa.
Pertenece al durante. También conocida como evaluación procesual (Artiles, Mendoza y Yera, 2008), continua, de seguimiento, permanente o proactiva" (pp. 44–46).
https://repositorio.itesm.mx/bitstream/handle/11285/571011/D...
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To be honest, "process evaluation" would express the meaning, but I would use the established term "formative assessment", because that way people who know about educational theory will get what you're talking about (or they can look it up).
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Robert Carter
: Hmm, I'm sure you know far more about this than I do, but your last reference suggests "processual" would be a better choice here than "formative".//See discussion. Clearly this would be a good choice though, if nothing more accurate is available.
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Thanks for the comment, Robert. I think "processual" would be a bad choice. "Procesual" and "formativa" are synonymous here. Refs to "processual assessment" in education are rare and mostly translated. // Many thanks!
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Yvonne Gallagher
: yes, continuous assessment is of student performance but this is gathering data to see if pedagogical goals are being achieved. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0969594X.2018.1...
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Absolutely! Many thanks, Yvonne :-)
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4 mins
procedural evaluation
Una opción.
Note from asker:
I was going to use this at first, but I checked and process/procedure are defined differently. https://tallyfy.com/procedure-vs-process/ |
Peer comment(s):
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David Hollywood
: I don't see why we can't go with "continuous assessment"
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ongoing assessment
If you need a term that could easily be used as a synonym of 'continuous assessment,' this is it.
ongoing assessment = evaluación procesual
continuous assessment = valoración continua
Ongoing Assessment | Teaching Diverse Learners - Brown University
https://www.brown.edu/academics/education.../assessment/ongo...
Ongoing Assessment of Language, Literacy, and Content Learning. **Ongoing assessment of student learning provides **continuous feedback** on the effectiveness ...
Note that 'formative assessment' is slightly different in a technical sense: not all formative assessment is 'ongoing assessment,' and not all 'ongoing assessment' is formative; it may be summative as well (see distinctions between 'formative' and 'summative' assessment).
https://www.google.com.vn/search?rlz=1C1JZAP_enHN781HN783&ei...
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Hi Neil: Yes, and understandably so. After all, what other synonym of 'continuous' is there? ;)
ongoing assessment = evaluación procesual
continuous assessment = valoración continua
Ongoing Assessment | Teaching Diverse Learners - Brown University
https://www.brown.edu/academics/education.../assessment/ongo...
Ongoing Assessment of Language, Literacy, and Content Learning. **Ongoing assessment of student learning provides **continuous feedback** on the effectiveness ...
Note that 'formative assessment' is slightly different in a technical sense: not all formative assessment is 'ongoing assessment,' and not all 'ongoing assessment' is formative; it may be summative as well (see distinctions between 'formative' and 'summative' assessment).
https://www.google.com.vn/search?rlz=1C1JZAP_enHN781HN783&ei...
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Note added at 1 day 20 hrs (2018-11-12 15:33:26 GMT)
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Hi Neil: Yes, and understandably so. After all, what other synonym of 'continuous' is there? ;)
Note from asker:
I actually use this a lot. |
Discussion
I repeat, any good teacher will draw conclusions from their students' performance, as revealed by assessed course assignments and class contributions, as well as tests, and apply them to improve teaching and learning, but that's a different matter. I'm afraid there are also plenty of teachers who conduct continuous assessment, because it's required of them and if they persistently fail to grade their students they'll lose their jobs, but don't really learn from it or think about its implications for how they teach. In those cases, formative assessment (or evaluación procesual), in the sense established by Scriven, Bloom and others, is not taking place.
"la valoración continua del aprendizaje del alumnado y de la enseñanza del profesor, mediante la obtención sistemática de datos"
Or one I quoted:
"proporciona la información necesaria para ir orientando y corrigiendo el proceso educativo. Proporcionará información permanente sobre el alumno y también sobre el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje (evaluación de la organización del aula, de la coordinación del profesorado…)"
I say no one uses "continuous assessment" or "ongoing assessment" to refer to those things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formative_assessment#Origin_of...
Whereas:
"Continuous assessment is a form of educational examination that evaluates a student's progress throughout a prescribed course. It is often used as an alternative to the final examination system. Proponents of continuous assessment argue that the approach allows tracking of progress and has a chance of offering students more support, guidance, and opportunities to improve during the course or programme."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_assessment
Please look at some definitions of "formative assessment", such as the one I've quoted here from ed.glossary.org. There's a Wikipedia page about it too.
That's a fair point, and well made.
Why on earth he ever came up with this word to begin with beats me.
What's your take on that?
By the way, I completely agree with you about "continuous assessment", that's another thing entirely.
It is, in a sense, a form of "continuous assessment" (or "ongoing assessment") of the teaching and learning process, but the term "continuous assessment" is only used as an educational term in English to refer to a method of grading students. Since "evaluación procesual" doesn't refer to that, "continuous assessment" would be a mistranslation.
The general goal of formative assessment is to collect detailed information that can be used to improve instruction and student learning while it’s happening. What makes an assessment “formative” is not the design of a test, technique, or self-evaluation, per se, but the way it is used—i.e., to inform in-process teaching and learning modifications."
https://www.edglossary.org/formative-assessment/
Having just seen your last posting, I must say that the point you raise about the possible calque of "formativa" in Spanish is a more persuasive argument, for me at least.
https://www.nap.edu/read/9174/chapter/9