Medición del rendimiento un estudio piloto: ¿ Qué dicen los estudiantes, los empleadores, las notas, y las pruebas estatales sobre los resultados de aprendizaje de los estudiantes?

Objectives. Determine whether there is an agreement between (1) the different ways of
assessing achievement of students' learning outcomes; and (2) between the students'
perception of achievement learning outcomes and students’ motivation. Methods. This
is a cross-sectional descriptive study in which graduate students who completed the
curriculum of the biomedical engineering program of the School of Medicine and
Health Sciences of the Universidad del Rosario and the Colombian School of
Engineering Julio Garavito (n = 31) and their employers we asked to rate the
achievement of students' learning outcomes. The variables of the study were the
weighted average of the final marks of the subjects of the nine semesters, the
individual overall result of the quintile number obtained by the students in the SABER
PRO state tests, the perception of achievement of the acquisition of students' learning
outcomes (self-reported and employers assessment), and the intrinsic and the extrinsic
motivation. Spearman rho bivariate correlations were calculated to determine the level
of agreement between the variables. (p≤0.05, two tails). Results There was agreement
between the employers 'perceptions and the students’ mark (rPE-PN=+0.37, p≤ 0.01) and,
between the employers' perception and SABER PRO test results (rPE-SP=+0.36, p≤ 0.05),
but there was no agreement between the acquisition of the students' learning
outcomes assessed by employers and the students’ self-reported evaluation (rPCE-PE=-
0.14, p> 0.05). There were not an agreement neither between the students' perception
achievement in acquisition of learning outcomes and the intrinsic motivation (rPCE-
MI=+0.32, p> 0.05), nor with the extrinsic motivation (rPCE-ME=+0.24, p> 0.05).
Conclusion. Students feel less competent than their employers’ assessment. There is
an agreement between external forms (SABER PRO exams and employers) to assess
the achievement students’ learning outcomes. There is no statistical evidence to assert
that as students become more motivated, they believe their learn more.