Fracasso escolar e avaliação da aprendizagem: uma relação intrínseca?

Abstract

The present article deals with the theme school failure in the Elementary School, and leads us to reflect about the fact of the student be the main penalized subject in this process. Introducing the concept that Perrenoud (2000) about school failure and the considerations of the author on the standards of excellence established by the school to promote this failure. We made a relationship between the scholar failure and the evaluative practices that prevail in our educational system, using the concepts of learning assessment, according to the authors as suggested by Luckesi and Hoffmann, to analyze if it’s relevant categorize students according to situations of success and failure. We conclude that the use of a mediator evaluation, the realization of the learning of students takes place in a positive way, avoiding the scholar failure of them (LUCKESI, 2005; HOFFMANN, 2006).