%0 Journal Article %T Actitud hacia la Evaluaci車n del Desempeˋo Docente y su Relaci車n con la Autoevaluaci車n del Propio Desempeˋo, en Profesores B芍sicos de Copiap車, La Serena y Coquimbo %A Catal芍n %A Jorge %A Gonz芍lez %A Mauricio %J Psykhe (Santiago) %D 2009 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.4067/S0718-22282009000200007 %X we studied the relationship between teachers' attitudes towards the evaluation of teaching performance, required by the ministry of education, and how they self-evaluate their own performance. the study used a correlational design in which 509 third and fourth grade teachers from the communities of la serena, coquimbo, and copiap車 participated. it was found that teachers with a positive attitude rate themselves higher in self-evaluation than those teachers with more negative attitudes. however, this relationship is not linear. we also found that age correlated directly with the self- evaluation and inversely with attitudes. it is suggested that younger teachers are more willing to be evaluated and improve their performance based on these evaluations. %K teaching performance %K evaluation of teaching performance %K self-evaluation of teaching performance %K professional development. %U http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0718-22282009000200007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en