La evaluación escrita en el área matemática: contenido y tendencias

Abstract

Since tests based on written assessment are widely used in schools, and given the influence of the assessment method on learning and teaching processes, this study aims to analyze written tests set by primary school mathematics teachers. The analysis focuses on the study of the quality of cognitive skills and learning procedures that teachers aim to promote in learners; it points to the need for making teachers' conceptions of written assessment more explicit, so as to recover the potential of this form of testing, and to broaden the limits in which appears to develop at present.