Self-assessment as a useful tool for talent’s development

Abstract

This research wants to demonstrate that self-assessment (SSA) needs to be
implemented. Here, the term talent is understood as “personal training potential
for development” (Tessaro 2011, pp. 355). It is linked to SSA, seen as
“the qualitative assessment of learning processes and its final products”
(Panadero, 2011, pp. 78) that a students acts. In order to demonstrate that
self-assessment practices play a key role in student development and learning
(Andrade & Valtcheva, 2009), 109 Italian university students took part,
voluntarily, at the research. The first Research Question focuses on the benefits
the SSA can bring. The second wants to reflect on the role of students
and teachers within SSA practices. Despite the limitation of the research,
the final diagram and the reported reflections can be useful to students and
to university professors, to pedagogists and to all those interested in the
topic, as a possible guideline to consider. They had been used as starting
point for other researches, still ongoing.