Durán del Fierro, F; (2019) Pruebas estandarizadas para el acceso a la educación superior en Chile: performatividad y subjetividad de los estudiantes [Standardized Admission Tests to Access Higher Education in Chile: Performativity and Students' Subjectivity]. Calidad en la Educación , 50 pp. 180-215. 10.31619/caledu.n50.723.

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This study aims to identify the main differences and similarities of students’ subjectivity regarding the new skills’ assessment tools, developed by the Department of Educational Evaluation, Assessment and Registry at the University of Chile (DEMRE) for the new admissions system, in lieu of the current University Selection Test (PSU, for its acronym in Spanish). Drawing on semistructured interviews carried out with a sample of students, who participated in the first pilot study (2017) and were also registered in the latest PSU admission process (2018), the findings show that students recognize DEMRE’s proposal as positive on two counts; it is more relevant (regarding the assessed content) and fairer (equal opportunities). However, students from lower classes argue that these new assessment tools have the potential to produce new, less conspicuous forms of social segregation and, therefore, could possibly be less fair than the current test (PSU). Further research is needed to understand in greater depth the way in which the new assessment tools affect -performativity- students’ subjectivity in relation to social classes, particularly in the context of the implementation of these new assessment tools.

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