FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT WITH STUDENTS IN PRACTICE, TO REDUCE THE THEORETICAL- PRACTICAL GAP IN INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING

There is today among teachers in initial training a generalized appreciation of the existence of too wide a gap between the theoretical knowledge transmitted in the university classroom and the actual practice faced by teachers in their first approaches to the school classroom. In Spain, university study plans aimed at initial teacher training allow teachers to contact educational reality through the Practicum course. However, it is precisely in this process of practice where students can experience the existence of a gap between theory and practice. In this article, the formative assessment is presented as an ideal and necessary means to unite what has been learned in the university classroom with the daily demands existing in the school environment.