Em busca de uma avaliação da aprendizagem livre de traumas: a relação entre medo e ansiedade de alunos do curso de pedagogia de uma IES pública em Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

The personal evaluative experience of the student of Pedagogy in his/her basic formation for the exercise of teaching is an essential condition for renewing the evaluation practice, historically marked by the emotional states of fear and anxiety caused by Traditional Pedagogy. This study is based on the ideas of Luckesi (2005a, 2005b), Depresbiteris (20009), Guba and Lincoln (2011), Hadji (2001), Vianna (2000, 2005), among others. The theoretical framework comprehends the primordium of Educational Evaluation, presenting each of the five generations, as well as the main pedagogical tendencies observed in the classroom, the legacy of Brazilian Educational Evaluation, the historical fears concerning examination and questions about fear and anxiety disorders related to the exact moment of assessment of learning. The main purpose of the current research is to accomplish an investigation about the presence of fear/anxiety indicators directly related to the practices of assessment of learning in students of day and night shifts in a course of Pedagogy in a Public Institute of Higher Education in Fortaleza-CE. Therefore, a quanti-qualitative research was accomplished, as a case study. The sample was composed by students registered in the 1st, 4th and 8th semesters of day shift as well as in the 1st, 4th and 7th semesters of night shift. The professors of the disciplines in which the questionnaires were applied and also the coordinators of both day and night shifts were also submitted to the research. Thus, 4 professors, 2 coordinators and 105 students participated in the research, 111 subjects altogether. The data were collected at the end of the first semester of 2016, in June and July, as well as at the beginning of the second semester, in August. The results revealed signs of fear and anxiety at the exact moment of the evaluation according to the literature. However, students, professors and coordinators wish a change regarding the idea of an examination culture towards a real assessment of learning. In conclusion, despite the existence of problems related to fear/anxiety related to the moment of assessment still remains, this process has being changed slowly for the better due to information and knowledge about new ways of evaluating and the true ideal of a formative assessment, where punishment does not exist and there is a real humanization at this important moment.