The article analyzes perception of students in the Major of Physical Education Teachers (1st and 2nd), regarding the self-assessment process lived during this pedagogical project "To democratize the university classroom: preparing teachers, preparing people". The research is framed within Phenomenology as study method, respecting those principles of the interpretative paradigm. Procedures used for qualitative data analysis were in agreement with the proposals of fragmentation and articulation from the "grounded theory". Total of participants contributing with narratives was 38; 11 of them were interviewed. Findings obtained stand out emotion as the cornerstone of the self-assessment process, transcendence of generated learning and the importance of unveiling those values implicit in our actions.