Assessment approach of Development Education and Global Citizenship Education

• Published in: Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo Vol. 8; no. 1; pp. 244 - 269
• Main Authors: Moral Toranzo, Félix, Pastor García, Inmaculada, López Toro, Alberto A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: Zaragoza Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain 01.01.2019; Universidad de Zaragoza, Cátedra de Cooperación para el Desarrollo
• Subjects: Citizenship; Citizenship education; Competence Assessment; competencia social y ciudadana; Decision making; Development Education and Global Citizenship Education; Diagnostic Assessment; diagnóstico; Educación para el Desarrollo y la Ciudadanía Global; Efficacy; evaluación de competencias; evaluación de la Educación para el Desarrollo; Evaluation; Evaluation of Development Education; International cooperation; Medical diagnosis; Social and Citizenship Competence
• ISSN: 2254-2035; 2254-2035
• DOI: 10.26754/ojs_ried/ijds.326

International Cooperation requires an assessment of Development Education as a guide to understanding, evaluating and making decisions that improve the efficacy and impact of its actions. This study focuses on demonstrating how a tool that is used in formal education can also be used to assess Development Education and Global Citizenship Education (DEGCE).Through a descriptive analysis, we compared DEGCE with the social and citizenship competences assessed in the Spanish region of Andalusia. We found a strong relationship between them in terms of content, teaching-learning method, and evaluative approaches. This implies that the diagnosis of social and citizenship competences not only serves as a model, or example, for DEGCE assessment, but it also provides relevant and useful information to evaluate its present state.