Authors

1Elena Chamorro Rebollo, 2África Sendino Revuelta, 3Belén San José Valiente

Position

¹Diplomada Universitaria de Enfermería. Subdirectora y profesora de Administración de Servicios de Enfermería y Fisioterapia. Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisiterapia "Salus Infirmorum".²Especialista en medicina interna del Hospital La Paz, Madrid.³Departamento de Estadística. Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid.

Contact address

Escuela Universitaria de Enfermería y Fisioterapia "Salus Infirmorum". C/ Santa Engracia, 15. 28010 Madrid.

Contact email: salus.secretaria@telefonica.net

Abstract

Objective: to explore the ability of nursing and phisiotherapy university students to self-assess their learning process.
Subjects and methods: descriptive study. The study population was composed of nursing and phisiotherapy students from the “Salus Infirmorum” university nursing school in Madrid. Data were collected at the end of each theory test, after completion of a self-assesment sheet by each student. Other variables were: sex, subject, and type of call. A difference between the teacher and the student score of ≥1 was found to be significant. The Kendall tau-b technique was used to measure concordance between 2 qualitative variables that keep ordinality. Quantitative data were correlated among themselves by using the Rho-Spearman coefficient.
Results: there was concordance in 59% of cases, underscoring of the students in 18.5% of the respondents and overscoring in 22,5% of respondents. Even though the percentage of concordance was similar between men and women, the proportion of men that overscored themselves was higher (34% vs 19,8%). Students who obained the lowest scores, obtained a low concordance level (41%), a high proportion of overscoring (56%) and a low rate of underscoring (2%). For students with the highest academmic performance, the opposite effect was observed: overscoring in 0,7% and underscoring in 77%.
Conclusions: students were reasonably accurate in their scoring. Although with scarce difference, male students presented a greater tendency so overscore themselves and female students to underscore themselves. The students that showed the highest academic performance, incurred in a higher proportion of underscoring and those with a lower academic performance, a greater percentage of overscoring.

Keywords:

Self-evaluation; students; education; academic staff; undergraduate; continued learning; Professional competenceconcordence

Versión en Español

Título:

Concordancia entre alumnos y profesores en las puntuaciones de exámenes teóricos