Cambiare lenti: la valutazione vista con gli occhi degli studenti

Why do we assess at school? How turn assessment into a learning tool? Every teacher has surely wondered himself about these questions at least once. The contribution deals with these questions by taking the point of view of students, who are considered as key-informants due to the centrality of assessment in their experience and the close link between the assessment experiences and their educational well-being. The research was conducted within a secondary school with the aim of exploring students’ opinions regarding the reasons behind school evaluation. To collect the data, a short self-assessment questionnaire was built and implemented online for the whole school population (N=250). The results give suggestions both at methodological level as well as at the content one. Concerning the implications for training, there is a need to help teachers learning strategies to pay attention to the “assessment thinking” of students in order to build a mutual assessment agreement.