FEAR AND UNFAIRNESS IMPACT ON THE LEARNING CAPACITY: OLD AND NEW CHALLENGES TO ASSESSMENT AND LEARNING
FEAR AND UNFAIRNESS IMPACT ON THE LEARNING CAPACITY: OLD AND NEW CHALLENGES TO ASSESSMENT AND LEARNING

Summary/Abstract: Our society streams towards developing, adapting and coping with the increasingly intense waves of crises in a globalized world. For that, we need an education system that provides sustainable assessment methods and guarantees students’ knowledge. Intending to understand the problems of the current education system, their origin and potential solutions, we initiated a mixed theoretical study on the assessment and learning processes in higher education. Then, to test the theoretical assumptions, the article takes the Romanian case study and analyses how feedback availability and the assessment environment impact the psychological state of Ph.D. students, their motivation to learn and the ease with which they complied with the Ph.D. requirements, and how socialization and group activities contributed to stimulating the students' capacity of development and integration into the labour market. The results show that assessment environments that put accent on feedback and eliminate competition allow learning to happen. And also, that the absence of feedback, be it from colleagues or teachers, represents a crucial factor in understanding tasks, getting over blockages and better preparing for summative assessments.

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