The End of Studies Projects in the training of Physical Education teachers, are they formative? A study through their teaching guides

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to analyse the state of the teaching guides for Final Degree Projects (TFE) in Physical Education Teacher Training in terms of their formative capacity, in order to find out to what extent the assessment systems are aligned with the current competency paradigm. A documentary analysis was carried out of 99 teaching guides, 52 for Final Degree Projects and 44 for Master's Degree Projects, in a total of 63 different universities in the 2019-2020 academic year. A panel of experts determined the educational capacity index of each teaching guide, based on four variables: means, instruments, criteria and agents. A descriptive analysis was applied, as well as a MANOVA Biplot. The results showed that the teaching guides lack relevant information on the variables studied, highlighting the lack of student involvement and an evaluation focused on the product. In addition, a large number of universities obtained a low training potential. This work provides a model to analyze evaluation systems, which allows us to know their alignment with the educational model in order to evaluate the quality of the KETs programmes, both on the part of the teaching staff and the institutions.