Pràctica 7. Història de vida personal, familiar i social

La incorporació per primera vegada d’un infant a l’escola és un dels esdeveniments més acuradament planificats i programats des de l’administració educativa i les institucions. Així, l’Ordre de 24 de juny de 2008 de la Conselleria d’Educació, sobre l’avaluació en l’etapa d’Educació Infantil, regula l’avaluació en aquesta etapa i estableix els documents oficials que formen part de l’historial educatiu que s’inicia en el començament de l’escolarització dels xiquets i xiquetes i els acompanyarà i completarà amb altres informes al llarg de les diferents etapes educatives. L’article 7 de l’esmentada Ordre destaca que, al començament de l’escolarització, el centre iniciarà l’historial educatiu de cada xiquet, que constarà, entre altres documents, d’un qüestionari d’inici de l’escolaritat segons l’annex I de l’Ordre. Aquest qüestionari s’emplenarà amb les dades obtingudes en una entrevista inicial que els tutors realitzaran amb cadascuna de les famílies durant el mes de setembre tant en l’inici del primer com en el segon cicle (art. 9) d’educació infantil. En aquesta entrevista apareixen factors i variables personals i contextuals a tenir en compte a l’hora d’iniciar el procés educatiu amb els infants.

Assessment of University External Internships. Towards a Mixed Model for Measuring the Acquisition of Skills and the Satisfaction of Parties Involved

The continuous improvement of management and assessment processes for curricular external internships has led a group of university teachers specialised in this area to develop a mixed model of measurement that combines the verification of skill acquisition by those students choosing external internships with the satisfaction of the parties involved in that process. They included academics, educational tutors of companies and organisations and administration and services personnel in the latter category. The experience, developed within University of Alicante, has been carried out in the degrees of Business Administration and Management, Business Studies, Economics, Advertising and Public Relations, Sociology and Social Work, all part of the Faculty of Economics and Business. By designing and managing closed standardised interviews and other research tools, validated outside the centre, a system of continuous improvement and quality assurance has been created, clearly contributing to the gradual increase in the number of students with internships in this Faculty, as well as to the improvement in satisfaction, efficiency and efficacy indicators at a global level. As this experience of educational innovation has shown, the acquisition of curricular knowledge, skills, abilities and competences by the students is directly correlated with the satisfaction of those parties involved in a process that takes the student beyond the physical borders of a university campus. Ensuring the latter is a task made easier by the implementation of a mixed assessment method, combining continuous and final assessment, and characterised by its rigorousness and simple management. This report presents that model, subject in turn to a persistent and continuous control, a model all parties involved in the external internships are taking part of. Its short-term results imply an increase, estimated at 15% for the last course, in the number of students choosing curricular internships and, for the medium and long-term, a major interweaving between the academic world and its social and productive environment, both in the business and institutional areas. The potentiality of this assessment model does not lie only in the quality of its measurement tools, but also in the effects from its use in the various groups and in the actions that are carried out as a result of its implementation and which, without any doubt and as it is shown below, are the real guarantee of a continuous improvement.