Self assessment: an important process in e-training. A study case

The paper offers a discussion about the concept of training from a psychological point of view. Training is a process that concerns a life long learning perspective, especially if referred to e-learning and on line activities. In this paper we present the Workshop for Observing Children at School, an experience of e-training at the University of Macerata . We intend to stress the crucial relevance of self assessment in training processes that involve adults’ participation. We are going to describe the methodology used in the Workshop, according to the on line educational context. We pay particular attention to the final phase of the training process. We found the importance to arrange a moment in which participants are requested to evaluate their involvement both in terms of process and outcomes.We demonstrate the importance to plan a phase in which teachers or trainers share with participants the criterions through which they will make the assessment. In fact we found out significant differences, in terms of curricular results, between two editions of the same on line course: in the first one we did not share the criterions of assessment with participants, on the contrary in the second edition we dedicated a special moment to this activity. The results show an increase of excellent outcomes and a decrease of the sufficient results in the second edition of the course