Emotional Identity in the Process of Evaluation in Primary School Children. School and Family Expectations

• Published in: Educatia 21 2020-05 (18), p.132-139
• Main Authors: Simion, Anca-Georgiana, Stan, Cristian
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Active listening; Classrooms; Cognitive Development; Educational Environment; Elementary school students; Emotions; Families & family life; Feedback; Identity formation; Learning; Learning Processes; School environment; Self image; Students; Teachers; Teaching
• ISSN: 1841-0456; 2247-8671; 2247-8671
• DOI: 10.24193/ed21.2020.18.14

School years have an important role in defining a person for the world he will live in. The influence that the school environment has on defining a person for the future is something that teachers and policy makers take into consideration when developing strategies for learning and equally important in the evaluation process. The evaluation process is an integral part of the education process and the connections between evaluation, assessment of learning and learning constitute a focal part of the educators. School performance is not solely a function of student’s aptitude set, but also covers the optimal cognitive and affective-motivational recourses in relation to certain tasks. Emotional competence, along with the social competence is important in the development of positive relationships and emotionally feelings of security in creating a positive self image for young people. Young people with a positive self image will have a greater disposition to learning. For children learning about themselves happens within the context of their families and community and it includes all the type of relationships they forge with their peers, places and things in relation to the actions and responses from others. Experience is the one that shapes the emotional responses that children have in regards to all the things happening around them and inside them, at a self-understanding level. This paper aims to understand the way emotional identity of children helps them focus on the evaluation task in various contexts of every day school life.