AVALIAÇÃO DA APRENDIZAGEM NOS ANOS INICIAIS DO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL: CONCEPÇÕES DOCENTES NO CICLO DE APRENDIZAGEM

Abstract

This paper presents an analysis of the conceptions of the learning teachers in the early years of public schools in one municipality of Paraná. Qualitative, descriptive, research aimed to analyze the conceptions assessment of teacher learning in the early years of elementary school, the learning cycle. The research is theoretically based on the epistemological, historical and pedagogical assumptions of educational assessment and learning, built from the contributions of Franco (1990), Rodrigues (1994), Fernandes (2005), Afonso (2005) Dias Sobrinho (2003, 2008), Luckesi (2011), Lopes and Silva (2012), Hadji (2001), Guba; Lincoln (2011), among others. The survey of the production of theses and dissertations on evaluation about learning in the early years is the state of the art produced around this object of study. The methodological procedures used in data collection were the questionnaire and interview. The collected data were organized and analyzed by the Collective Subject Discourse - DSC developed by Lefèvre and Lefèvre (2005). The survey results showed that most teachers has a formative conception about assessment of learning, although there are some remnants of the traditional design where the most valued is the exam results and tests than the daily evaluation processes. In the analyzed discourses became evident that there is a collective effort of teachers to break with the objectivist conception of assessment traditional of learning assessment. It can be concluded that the conceptions of these teachers move in a emancipatory perspective, based on the critical-dialectical, in that posture consider some fundamental aspects: the use of formative assessment to support student learning and teacher's education planning, the emphasis of the role of student and teacher in formative evaluation processes with the use of self-assessment and interactive feedback in the teaching and learning process: diversity of assessment tools that teachers use during the process of teaching and learning, the understanding of the student's mistake as to the suitability of the possibility of teaching and learning, and finally, the record of students performance in relation to the objectives proposed in the opinions from the trial of elements of their everyday learning.