Students’ representations of writing and its assessment at the postgraduate level

Representaciones de estudiantes sobre la escritura y su evaluación en el posgrado

Representações discentes sobre a escrita e sua avaliação na pós-graduação

Pozzo, María Isabel - Rosso, Florencia
Detalles Bibliográficos
2023
representaciones
estudiantes
escritura
enseñanza
evaluación
posgrado
representations
students
writing
teaching
assessment
postgraduate courses
representações
alunos
escrita
ensino
avaliação
pós-graduação
Español
Universidad ORT Uruguay
RAD
https://revistas.ort.edu.uy/cuadernos-de-investigacion-educativa/article/view/3462
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11968/6616
Acceso abierto
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Resumen:
Sumario:Students' representations of writing and its evaluation may foster or hinder the production of texts in university graduate studies, influencing their learning at that educational level. In this article, we aim to elicit these representations and identify characteristics of the students' paths that influence them. To fulfill this purpose, a case study was conducted in a Master Program in University Teaching (MDU) at a public university in Argentina. There, a cohort of students from different disciplines and institutions were interviewed. The interviews' analysis was based on Grounded Theory. The results show social representations that conceive, to a greater extent, writing as a mechanical act and associate its assessment to grading. Likewise, a career's characteristics are related to its discipline of origin and social and professional patterns that give meaning to the postgraduate experience and foster or hinder the student's perception as a member of a discursive community. These representations condition the students' academic path. Therefore, it can be concluded that knowing them will allow the teaching staff to acknowledge divergences and adjust mutual expectations to encourage the production of knowledge required at this educational level.