The performance assessment ability of student-teachers. Documentary analysis of authentic tasks.

The first part of the proposal resumes the pedagogical reasons for a formative and authentic assessment and the importance of training student-teachers in the use of assessment tools, such as authentic tasks. The second part describes the design and the methodologies of an investigation carried out in the qualifying degree course of Primary Education Sciences of the University of Bergamo. The study focuses on the performance assessments ability, understood as ‘using hands-on tasks to assess and improve learning processes’ by student- teachers. The documentary analysis conducted on paper-and-pencil assessment tools, developed by student-teachers as ‘authentic task’, highlights the ability to grasp the learning processes related to everyday problematic situations.