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Call to publish scientific articles that will be received between June 20 and November 20, 2019, referring to:

University Pedagogy: With topics such as public policies in higher education, legislative system and reforms, academic programs, comparative policies, massification processes, quality assurance, legal professions, and others in higher education as a general field, referring to the Chilean and international context .

Didactics of Law: With topics whose centrality is related to processes of innovation, learning, curriculum, innovations, teaching experiences, students and teachers characterization , among others in legal education in the Chilean and international context.

Ethical and citation standards (Chicago-deusto) must be taken care of, in addition to the originality of the research or innovation.

Formative assessment in teaching profession ethics of future lawyers

Authors

Abstract

The goal of this article is to answer the question about the best assessment strategy for a legal Ethics course. To achieve this goal this article takes as an example a course program as a study case, lying on the premise that the complexity of certain problems demands not only a reasonable mastery of the conceptual apparatus for them to manage but a frequently assessed teaching-learning process. The article manages, in this way, some ethical-conceptual iussues which nowadays are discussed; the possibilities that the selected course has for its treatment, and finally it proposes a scheme of formative assessment to allow both professor and student to the account of the progress and achievements of the student

Keywords:

Formative assessment, legal ethics, neutrality principle, non accountabiity principle, partisa biases, partisanship principle

Author Biographies

Patricio Lazo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

Patricio Lazo is a professor at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, holds a doctorate in Law from the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Madrid) and a master's degree in Competency-Based Education from the Universidad de Talca. He is also a lawyer and holds a law degree from the Universidad de Chile.

E-mail: patricio.lazo@pucv.cl

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6943-5684

Johann Benfeld, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso

johann Benfeld holds a PhD in Law from the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain and is a professor of Theory of Law at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso in Chile. 

E-mail: johann.benfeld@pucv.cl

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6109-3878.