A prática da avaliação educacional e suas contribuições para a aprendizagem discente.

Abstract

In the present paper, it is presented several subsides and discussions on the practice of educational evaluation and its contributions to students‟ learning, having as main objective to analyze how this practice occurs currently at the school, identifying the instruments used by teachers to assess their students and what contributions this assessment practice for cognitive development of the student in order to show the importance of evaluating mediator for quality learning and noting that the assessment classification serves only to classify or label, explaining that evaluating is a complex task that involves several dimensions. It will also be discussed the main ideas of some authors and researchers in the field of educational assessment, thereby contributing to better understanding of the subject. In this study we analyzed the evaluation practice of a teacher of the Escola Municipal de Ensino Infantil e Fundamental Professor Francisco Cassiano Sobrinho, in the town of Poço de José de Moura, through a questionnaire, to know and understand their concepts and practices evaluation. Thus, as it was also analyzed using a questionnaire to the students' opinions about the evaluation process developed in the classroom. The data obtained showed a lack of teacher knowledge about the dimensions and the evaluation process, showing that the educator uses the test as the main tool to assess their students, developing, evaluating classification. This research aims to show that the assessment should be practiced in a mediator way, continuous and democratic, considering that the act must assess is linked to the act of educating.