Quand l’évaluation rate sa vocation

When evaluation fails to fulfill its purpose

Abstract

If the certificating evaluation reveals the level of knowledge acquisition, it is essential to know what you are trying to assess in a student. Some people believe that linguistic mastery is sufficient to approve a curriculum, others believe that the certification evaluation must refer to the mastery of knowledge and that the linguistic nature represents only a criterion of evaluation. It is between these two reflections that the certification evaluation loses its benchmarks. In the absence of real criteria, it is impossible to create a new powerful and reliable certificating evaluation system.