FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT – AN OBJECTIVE IN UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

The quality of assessment in university education depends, to a considerable extent, on the professional training of teachers in the creation of a system of practical-applicative strategies in formative assessment, which is a valuable tool for adapting and adjusting the teaching-learning process. Recently, formative assessment research has gained considerable momentum. In the context of post-modern education, assessment is expanding its scope, moving beyond the end of the learning process and actively integrating into it. Thus, the student becomes an active participant in the learning and assessment process, taking on the role of an actor in his or her own learning. Based on learning, formative assessment plays an essential role in university education through authentic feedback between teachers and students. Formative assessment thus has two essential functions: on the one hand, it helps to correct the teaching process in order to reduce the difficulties encountered by students and, on the other hand, it allows the teaching-learning process to be adjusted.