La evaluación de la alfabetización académica.

Academic literacy has become one of the aims in Higher Education, where writing has turned into a learning tool. The Spanish Qualifications Framework for Higher Education (MECES) grades the expected learning outcomes in university students regarding academic literacy of official Bachelor, Masters and Doctorate degrees. The assessment of academic literacy is considered as a discourse community where the object and objective, the tasks, the practices, the criteria and assessment standards all center on the process of epistemic writing in an academic context. An assessment for learning and the involvement of students in the processes of feedback and feedforward enable their inclusion into an academic discourse community. In this paper, the concept of academic literacy is reexamined as well as the research perspectives that support it. In addition, the nature of academic writing is analyzed and the elements which form the assessment process, from the perspective of the academic discourse communities, are shown. Lastly, guidelines are offered for training students in academic literacy in today's university. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]