Das Concepções às práticas de avaliação: um estudo sobre as práticas avaliativas no Curso de Licenciatura em Matemática do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba – Cajazeiras

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to analyze the conceptions of learning assessment of the Math graduation course from Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, Cajazeiras, as well as its influences in the evaluative practices to the teachers’ formation. The research, being descriptive, mainly qualitative, involves teachers from the mentioned course as participants. Questionnaires and semi structured interviews were used as methodological tools for data collection, approaching aspects concerning educational conceptions, learning assessment and teachers’ formation. The data collected through the interviews carried out with teacher were discussed in the light of phenomenological approach, based on gadamerian hermeneutics. Through the fusion of the horizons present in the participants’ speech, it was possible to establish reflections about the role effectively assumed by teaching-learning assessment, in the context of teachers’ formation in Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba, Cajazeiras. We concluded that there is the necessity of developing, in the course mentioned, a systematic work on learning assessment that constitutes continued formation practices of the teachers who work in the course, aiming at implementing a change in the practices developed with Math graduation course students. We found out that, besides the fact that many professionals signed the intention of working with continued assessment, in a formative perspective, it is still very present the idea of assessment linked to the idea of tests application, of measuring. The studies indicated the necessity of reformulation in the course pedagogical project, glimpsing the discussions about the subjects and, consequently, the way they are worked and assessed in the course context. At last, the teachers participants of the research pointed out to the importance of implementing, in the institution of Cajazeiras or Paraíba, as a whole, an educational assessment policy, considering the necessity of following/evaluating the course in focus (and others) in a wide action perspective, visualizing the actions in short, medium and long period. Such action is justified since it deals with teachers’ formation, considering that the results of this work can only be visualized in future actions, in the practices of future teachers.