Avaliação formativa da alfabetização: uma proposta para acompanhar o desenvolvimento da leitura das crianças do 2° Ano do Ensino Fundamental

Abstract

The large scale outside evaluation has, among its many goals, the goal to track the quality of education through results of students submitted to testing. On the same perspective, the Alphabetization on the Right Age (PAIC) develops outside of school, on the state of Ceará, a large scale evaluation of reading skills, applied annually to students from the Public System at the end of 2nd grade of Elementary School. However, those evaluations are punctual and its results, sometimes, take a long time to get to the teachers. To minimize this problem, the Municipal Department of Education (SME) proposes systematic reading skills evaluations, applied by the teachers, to monitor the students’ learning development. Those tools, however, lack of theoretical foundations, of guidance on how to apply them and on how to interpret results to be considered truly effective. On that context, this study aimed to analyze the tools of systematic evaluation of reading skills applied by SME to students of the 2nd grade of Elementary School from the Public Education System of Fortaleza and, following that, it proposed an application and result interpretation protocol. This material was submitted to testing by the teachers and then, its results were analyzed which contributed to the making of the final product. The methodological path of this research involved bibliographical and documental research as well as field research. An interview was applied to 3 teachers from the 2nd grade of schools of the Public Education System in Fortaleza as the first step of this study. The second step was the construction of the new reading skills evaluation protocol, which was made from the analysis of the data collected during the first step and the bibliographical and documental research. The techniques of data collection on the third step, comprehended by the pre and post-test of the developed protocol were constituted by observation and by the semi-structured interview applied to a spontaneous sample of 1 teacher from the 2nd grade. The results of this research confirmed the hypothesis: The conceptual definition of the development of the skill of reading and the guidance to comprehend the results establish a north to teachers’ actions so they can better follow their students’ learning progress. It can be concluded that the evaluation of the reading skills on kids in the 2nd grade still faces many challenges both on a micro-environment (school) and on a macro-environment (Municipal Department of Education), regarding the complexity of the evaluated object (reading skills) and the tools’ limitations. This thesis hopes that this work can be an alternative to the evaluation of the reading skills, so the teachers feel sure when evaluating the difficulties and potentialities of their students.