Title: Management of evaluation and assessment processes in lower secondary schools in Slovenia

Authors: Kristina Plavec; Maja Kerneža; Boris Aberšek; Andrej Flogie

Addresses: Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia ' Faculty of Education, University of Maribor, Koroška 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia ' Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Koroška 160, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia ' Anton Martin Slomšek Institute, Vrbanska 30, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia

Abstract: In today's society, acquiring knowledge is not enough. Learners and students have to be provided with problem-solving competences and become trained for an independent, lifelong process of learning and constructive self-criticism, and accepting responsibility. This is especially important in teaching interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary fields, such as STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Evaluation and assessment is an indispensable element also of the students self-evaluation process. The two basic research questions in this study were: What are the goals of testing and assessment? Do teachers manage to regularly monitor the students progress? The presented research focuses mainly on the strategies and methods for testing, evaluation and assessment in the interdisciplinary field of Science, Technology and Engineering (STE). The main research results showed that too little time is spent on formative assessment of individual students, and that students are thus unable to regularly monitor their learning progress.

Keywords: testing; evaluation; assessment; education; students; lower secondary schools; Slovenia.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIE.2019.100404

International Journal of Management in Education, 2019 Vol.13 No.3, pp.218 - 233

Received: 09 Jun 2018
Accepted: 03 Sep 2018
Published online: 28 Jun 2019 *

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