The future of assessment in Higher Education/El futuro de la evaluacion en la educacion superior

The pending challenge of assessment in higher education, although also at other educational levels, continues to be its effective link with student learning. Students' strategic learning could and should be achieved by the assessment. This paper arises from the attempt to answer the question about what would be the future of assessment in higher education and it is presented under the form of a collaborative text that was elaborated by all the authors who sign it. This contribution offers a joint reflection by various authors from different contexts and regions on three essential aspects. First, the need for reflection and a change in assessment based on current trends that are demonstrating their timeliness and validity is highlighted. A second issue focuses on the value of technology for the changes that are taking place on assessment, but as long as it adapts to its principles and, therefore, does not imply a return to the last century under the dominance of models today widely overcome. Together with the use of technology-enhanced assessment, the interrelationship between assessment and learning implies to redesign assessment practices, to incorporate proposals from the fields of social justice and sustainable assessment, the design of authentic assessment tasks, to promote feedback and encourage students' participation. In brief, to collaborate to develop the students' evaluative judgment in order to achieve free, socially responsible and fair citizens. Keywords: Assessment; Assessment as learning; Sustainable assessment; Assessment tasks, Feedback; Participation; Assessment tools; Technology enhanced assessment; Higher education El reto pendiente de la evaluacion en educacion superior, aunque tambien en otros niveles, sigue siendo su vinculacion efectiva con el aprendizaje de los estudiantes. A traves de la evaluacion se puede y debe conseguir un aprendizaje estrategico del estudiantado. Esta aportacion surge a partir del intento de dar respuesta al interrogante sobre cual seria el futuro de la evaluacion en la educacion superior, presentandose la misma bajo la forma de un texto elaborado de forma colaborativa entre todos los autores que la firman. Se ofrece asi una reflexion conjunta de diversos autores de diferentes contextos y regiones sobre tres aspectos esenciales. En primer lugar, se resalta la necesidad de reflexion y un cambio en la evaluacion basado en las tendencias actuales que estan demostrando su oportunidad y validez. Un segundo aspecto