Métodos de avaliação formativa: desatando nós e alinhavando possibilidades

Abstract

This study aims at identifying the way Fundamental Education teachers have been applying and developing Educational Assessment. It aims at analyzing current assessment conceptions among Fundamental Education teachers of a selected public school and identifying, from their different types of evaluation records and methods, those reflecting or coming close to Educational Assessment conceptions. To that effect, I chose for research locus a Laboratory School/In-service Teacher Training College in the federal Fundamental Education public school system in Minas Gerais State, as I understood that its teaching work unequal conditions - dispensing education, research and extension - could provide a framework favorable to a top-notch and educational training practice. The methodological approach was qualitative research with Case Studies. The investigation was carried out in 2012/2014. Data collection was made by means of documentary analysis, questionnaire and structured interview. The documentary analysis was made in two phases. The first phase comprised: analysis of school documents, such as: its pedagogical and political project, charter of principles, school portfolio, school agenda, research carried out by the school, among others. The second phase comprised: analysis of materials produced by teachers and pupils, such as portfolios, classroom work, planning work, tests, logbooks, memory books, text production books, diagnostic activities, class diary, among others. Data on the assessment proposed in the school documents reveal discrepancies and gaps and indicate some difficulty in developing a collective assessment work. Another aspect the study focused on was the use of different types of record and assessment methods made by teachers, which showed that theoretical and practical approaches to educational assessment, or also, evaluation intentions were in opposition to the conception of assessment rating. In this sense, an assessment conception where participation, autonomy, authorship, collaboration, as well as the process itself and work building by all those involved in the educational process, which prioritizes the strengthening of a dialog, less conflicting and more emancipatory-based relationship between the subjects and objects of knowledge, became evident.