Abstract

ORTIZ MARTINEZ, Esther; GRAS GIL, Ester  and  MARIN HERNANDEZ, Salvador. The effect of ongoing evaluation in university learning. An empirical study in Financial Accounting. RMIE [online]. 2018, vol.23, n.79, pp.1235-1259. ISSN 1405-6666.

This project asks if ongoing evaluation has a positive effect on learning in the university classroom. For this reason, we analyzed students’ grades in financial accounting in undergraduate accounting and administration at Universidad de Murcia (Spain) during the last four academic periods. We used 584 grades that were tripled in the analysis: the final exam grade, the grade for ongoing evaluation, and the overall grade for the subject, all influenced by different variables. The results obtained from the first descriptive study and the regression of ordinary least squares allow us to confirm previous studies and accept the basic hypothesis that ongoing evaluation has a positive effect on the final exam grade and therefore, on learning.

Keywords : evaluation of learning; summative evaluation; teaching and learning process; higher education.

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