Student’s perceptions about evaluation of history in secondary education: Analysis of expected and obtained grades

Abstract

This research analyzes the possible sources of variation between the grade that students of high school expect at the end of the course and what they really get, according to information received on the evaluation criteria and the practice of certain study habits. After application of a questionnaire with a sample of more than 1100 students who studied the subject of History, from eleven high schools. The study concludes that better informed students have a smaller difference between expected and obtained grade, whereas the differences are greater in students who consider that they don’t know the evaluation criteria well.