Uso da avaliação escrita: análise da estrutura das provas de Biologia nas turmas de 2º ano em uma escola estadual da rede pública do Ceará

Abstract

Assessment is a useful and necessary pedagogical resource to help each teacher and each student in the search and construction of themselves and of the best ways to be in life. Commonly during evaluation process there are multiple possibilities that a teacher has to analyze the learning of students. At the public high schools in Ceará state there is a preference for the use of written evaluations of objective character. But it is necessary to ascertain the way the structure of assessments used influenced student’s performance. Thus, the aim of this study is to check whether the structure of the issues influences significantly the income index of students. This work is an exploratory research of type study case, which had an intentional sample having as instrument the evaluations and efficiency rate obtained among the years 2009 to 2014. It was observed in the analyzed assessments that when it had a greater variety of genres, the students obtained a higher yield rate. It is concluded that the assessments influence the student’s performance significantly.