Evaluation of the learnings in rural multigrade schools

Abstract

Multigraduation as a basic characteristic of rural schools requires certain didactic approaches, including evaluation. In this area we present the results of one of the phases of an international project of investigation in which were studied several dimensions about the education in rural schools. In the work presented there are exposed the results referred to one of the dimensions studied, the evaluation, and in the Spanish context. The methodology used for this phase of the investigation has a qualitative character, across structured interviews realized to teachers of multigrade classrooms, selected from his answers to a previous questionnaire, and the exposed results rest on the analysis of content of the same ones across a system of categorization of mixed character. The results and the later conclusions point at the presence of a several instruments of evaluation, as well as at strategies of evaluation between couples.