Resumen

LOPEZ CAMPOS, Mónica Alejandra; CANNELLA, Salvatore  y  CIANCIMINO, Elena. Alternative Mixed Assessment Project (ALT.A.): The Mexican E-Learning Experience. REDIE [online]. 2010, vol.12, n.2, pp.1-16. ISSN 1607-4041.

The aim of this paper is to present an experiment of mixed evaluation (summative/formative) of questions formulated by students in a distance-education environment carried out in the Total Quality Management course in the B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering offered by Mexican public universities. Questions generated by students were evaluated using a specially-designed quantitative tool: Matrix Observation of four criteria with binary scoring. The experiment showed: (1) how is it possible to enrich the evaluation process, and formalize students' skills hardly recognizable with traditional forms of assessment; and (2) how the teacher-student interaction can be increased significantly by the technique mixed evaluation of questions in reverse, i.e. by the students.

Palabras llave : Distance education; evaluation methods; formative evaluation; summative evaluation; educational quality.