The Divergent Relationship between Assessment and Self-assessment in Higher Education. Experimental Results

Alongside teaching and learning, educational assessment and self-assessment make up the basic components of the educational process. The congruence between a teacher's assessment and the student's self-assessment is an important motivational factor for the continuation of the educational process while the incongruity between the two processes can determine a reduction in the student's implication towards obtaining academic performance. Thus, our study aims to capture the degree to which the assessment – self-assessment relationship is a congruent one, the factors that influence the self-assessment process, the frequency of the students’ attempts at estimating their grades and the type of discrepancies between them.