Avaliação na educação infantil: a perspectiva das professoras de pré-escola

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the role of evaluation in early childhood education from the perspective of pre-school teachers. Specifically intended to understand the evaluation function in the view of teachers and identify the instruments used by teachers for evaluation. The theoretical bases were built from Ferreira studies (2013), Micarello (2010) and Hoffmann (2010, 2012). In addition, they resorted to the legal bases (BRAZIL, 1996; 2009; 2009a) focusing considerations of the evaluation. The research is qualitative, descriptive character, and its main procedural technique to interview individually performed with four pre-school teachers who work in a public institution of Ceará. Also questionnaires were applied in order to better understand the research subjects. The results reveal that the role of evaluation in the perspective of the teachers is to follow the development of the child, being understood also as a practice that happens every day in kindergarten. The instruments used by teachers for evaluation are: observation, record, and report diagnostic test. Finally this study concluded that the conduct of the evaluation from various instruments are needed in the pre-school everyday because it enables the teacher to know and follow the development of the child so as to take actions that promote an integral way.