Valutare la self-efficacy all’Università. Uno studio pilota nel corso di Scienze dell’Educazione e della Formazione

In the process of renewing the assessment models in a socio-constructivist and centred learner direction, the self-assessment represents a possible declination of the formative assessment in university study paths. It is, in fact, a process that enhances students’ critical thinking, to understand both the difficulties and their level of self-efficacy in developing lifelong and lifewide skills, useful as well as in contexts formally assigned to learning, also in real and professional life. The pilot survey, carried out with a group of students from the Degree Course in Education and Training Sciences at the University of Macerata, confirms the importance of self-assessment and focuses attention on the perception of the construct of self-efficacy. The study, in fact, represents the first step of a broader and more complex assessment process, aimed at detecting students’ self-efficacy on their socio-cognitive skills pursued by the study profile of socio-pedagogical educator.