Cognitive Representation of Academic Assessment in Romania. A Qualitative Analysis

This paper related to cognitive representation of assessment in Romania discusses the issues of assessment from the semiotic perspective in order to negotiate the meaning of the wide range of errors identified. The purpose is to identify the cognitive representation regarding the assessment in Romania, to analyse the interviews collected from the students, and to infer about the causality of the assessment errors. The findings reveal that the assessment is explicitly designed from the vantage point of the mental map as a scarecrow. The data collected offer a multi-faceted interpretation: they demonstrate the erosion of the teacher's image within the Romanian society