Continuous assessment aims to enhance student learning and understanding of a subject and so achieve better educational outcomes. We investigated how continuous assessment grades affected final exam grades. Using a dataset for six academic post-Bologna Process years (2009-2015) for a first-year undergraduate microeconomics course offered at a Spanish public university, we examined conditional dependence between continuous assessment and final exam grades. Our results would indicate a limited contribution of continuous assessment results to final exam results: the probability of the final exam performance improving on the continuous assessment grade was lower than the probability of the opposite occurring. A consistent exception, however, was students who obtained an A grade for continuous assessment. Our results would cast some doubt on the beneficial effects of continuous assessment advocated by the Bologna Process.

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连续评估结果会影响期末考试结果吗？微观经济学课程的证据

持续评估旨在增强学生对一门学科的学习和理解，从而获得更好的教育成果。我们调查了连续评估成绩如何影响期末考试成绩。我们使用了西班牙公立大学提供的六个学年博洛尼亚进程后学年（2009-2015）的数据集，来研究一学年的本科微观经济学课程，我们研究了持续评估和期末考试成绩之间的条件依赖性。我们的结果表明，持续评估结果对期末考试成绩的贡献有限：在持续评估成绩上，期末考试成绩提高的可能性低于相反情况发生的可能性。然而，一个一致的例外是那些获得A级成绩以进行持续评估的学生。