Abstract

This article presents the design, construction, and metric evaluation of a guideline for the observation of school classrooms. The goal was to evaluate the quality of the teacher's educational performance. Ninety-two teacher's videos from 4th to 8th grade, previously recorded by the National System of Evaluation of the Educational Professional Performance, Docentemás, were used in the study. The instrument shows appropriate levels of reliability and allows for a complementary assessment to the one done by Docentemás, integrating additional and innovative variables to the assessment of the teacher's performance. The guideline provides teachers with relevant information about the quality of the learning process, making it possible for them to visualize areas of their pedagogical practices that they could develop or improve. Copyright 2008 by Psykhe.