Introduction:

Learning assessment is a process where it is important to incorporate students through self-assessment, to involve them and make them responsible for their learning.

Objective:

To investigate the usefulness of self-assessment from the perspective of higher education students.

Method:

The methodology is mixed, with a qualitative analysis carried out in ATLAS.ti and a quantitative analysis developed in SPSS and Excel.

Results:

Self-assessment is not frequently used since only 23% of the participants have used it with a high frequency.

Conclusions:

a) An area of opportunity is for students to compare their learning with their peers’, b) for effective self-assessment, students must strengthen their confidence in themselves, c) it is necessary for teachers to incorporate activities after self-assessment, d) the use of self-assessment is useful if its implementation has a goal and a structured process.

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