Construction of an objective test for measuring academic performance of the students of the Degree in Pedagogy

Resumen

The general scope of this work is to construct an objective test for the measurement of the academic performance of the students of the Degree in Pedagogy of the Complutense University of Madrid. For this, quantitative methodology has been used, adopting a structured approach that allows identifying the general patterns that characterize our population. We began with a weighing of the relative importance of each of the subjects or contents of the subject, and then the number of items in the test was determined and then distributed, taking into account the relative importance of each topic. The results show that the test accurately measured the performance of the students of the Degree in Pedagogy, in one of the compulsory subjects of the curriculum. As future research lines, it is suggested the construction of other similar tests for other subjects and courses of the degree in Pedagogy, as well as contrasting the results of students with other measures about the self-efficacy of the teachers themselves, for its close relationship with  the academic performance  of the students.