Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:10:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcia Floriano e Silva.pdf: 437741 bytes, checksum: f0e40b995016b55d6b9b9a6b9441cf02 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-30 / The subject of this research is the learning evaluation in High Education. The object of this study is the knowledge of learning teachers who are well evaluated by students. The main objective of this work is know the learning evaluation made by teachers who are well evaluated by students in Education and Dental courses of University Centre of Anapolis, UniEvangelica, in Goiás. The investigation has a qualitative approach with basis on ethnography. It is the right approach to this kind of research because it is characterized by direct contact with the situation investigated. This research is structured into four chapters. The first chapter presents the theoretical basis about High Evaluation, Good teaches in High Education and Learning Evaluation. The second chapter tells about how the research was made. In the third chapter is presented and analyzed the evaluation made by teachers. The fourth chapter is a conclusion about the study. The results of this work show that the learning evaluation practiced by teachers in those courses is in one hand, in Dental course, it is relation to a conception of evaluation as a measure of learning. In this conception there is the use of different ways of evaluating the student, however, this practice, does not mean the conception of a formative evaluation. Though, these teachers show in their speeches that a new approach to evaluation is necessary, their actions show that it is not happen in classroom practice at all. In other hand, In Education course it is possible evaluation is portrayed as a promotional practice of student. It shows to be an inclusive practice in relation to student and Knowledge. It is a formative, continued and systemic evaluation. It is an evaluation that makes possible to students relation their theoretical and practical knowledge. It is an evaluation that helps the student how to learn. In this way, the conclusion is that the evaluation that is made by these teachers is in the context of advances and reverses, of contradictions that are lived and spoken. There are desires to changing, and the teachers recognize that evaluation is a hard and complex practice. On the other hand they want to advance, but they don t know how to do that. At least, there is a courage in some of them, and they made the changing happen. / O tema desta pesquisa é a avaliação da aprendizagem na educação superior, e o objeto de estudo é o conhecimento da avaliação da aprendizagem de professores bem avaliados pelos alunos. O objetivo geral deste estudo é conhecer a avaliação da aprendizagem desenvolvida por professores bem avaliados pelos alunos nos cursos de Pedagogia e Odontologia do Centro Universitário de Anápolis, UniEvangélica. Esta pesquisa está vinculada à linha Formação e profissionalização docente, do programa de pós-graduação, stricto sensu, em nível de mestrado da Universidade Federal de Goiás. A abordagem de pesquisa é a qualitativa com fundamentos da etnografia. Esta abordagem se apresenta como a mais adequada para a natureza desse trabalho, pois, se caracteriza pelo contato direto de quem pesquisa com a situação pesquisada. Este trabalho está estruturado em quatro capítulos. O primeiro capítulo contempla a fundamentação teórica sobre avaliação institucional, bons professores e avaliação da aprendizagem. O segundo capítulo trata do Percurso da pesquisa. No terceiro capítulo é apresentada e analisada a avaliação praticada pelos professores do estudo. Por fim, o quarto capítulo aborda considerações sobre os resultados alcançados. Os resultados do trabalho mostram que a avaliação realizada pelos professores, de um lado, no curso de Odontologia identifica-se a uma prática avaliativa alicerçada ainda na concepção de avaliação como medida, onde a variação de instrumentos avaliativos traduz uma avaliação contínua, mas não formativa. Muito embora haja o desejo dos professores, expresso em sua linguagem, pela busca de ruptura com as práticas tradicionais, sua realização ainda não ocorre de todo, na prática. No curso de Pedagogia avaliação se configura como prática de promoção e inclusão do aluno na construção do conhecimento. É uma avaliação que pode ser considerada como formativa, contínua, sistêmica. Os instrumentos aplicados nesta avaliação possibilitam ao aluno relacionar conhecimentos teórico e práticos. É uma avaliação voltada para ajudar o aluno a aprender. Desse modo, conclui-se que a avaliação praticada por estes professores se insere em um contexto de avanços e retrocessos, de contradições vividas e faladas, de desejos de mudança, de reconhecimento de uma prática que é complexa e difícil, de práticas inovadoras, de querer avançar, mas sem saber como e, por fim, da coragem daqueles que fazem a mudança acontecer.

Os mapas conceituais são ferramentas gráficas que possibilitam a representação dos modelos mentais do aluno. Devido a essa capacidade, o mapa conceitual pode ser utilizado como ferramenta avaliativa de conhecimento. O uso dessa ferramenta em sala de aula gera cargas na memória de trabalho que podem ser referentes ao conteúdo (carga intrínseca) ou à forma como esse recurso está sendo trabalhado na sala de aula (carga extrínseca). Este trabalho tem por objetivo investigar como os mapas conceituais auxiliam na avaliação da aprendizagem da disciplina Ciências da Natureza: Ciência, Cultura e Sociedade ofertada na Universidade de São Paulo para alunos ingressantes de diversos cursos de graduação (n = 64) durante o período de 2013.1 sobre o conteúdo de Mudanças Climáticas. Nas turmas avaliadas o mapa conceitual poderia ser utilizado como ferramenta de preparação para prova (MCPREP) como também era utilizado como parte da avaliação formal da disciplina (MC-AVAL). Essa pesquisa se constitui de três Estudos que investigam: 1. As diferenças de perfis de mapas conceituais obtidos na condição de MC-PREP x MCAVAL; 2. Se o grupo de alunos que fizeram MC-PREP tiveram MC-AVAL com perfil diferente daqueles que não fizeram; 3. A existência de uma correlação entre as características do MC-AVAL com o conhecimento declarativo dos estudantes. Os mapas conceituais foram avaliados considerando aspectos estruturais e semânticos. As metodologias das análises realizadas foram retiradas de trabalhos presente na literatura. Entre os aspectos semânticos estavam o uso de materiais instrucionais, a natureza das proposições, a presença de erros e a aderência a pergunta focal. Além dessas análises, foi verificada a presença de agrupamentos naturais que pudessem ser explicados com uso das categorias teóricas. A análise dos resultados indica que os mapas conceituais das condições MC-PREP e MC-AVAL são bastante distintas entre si, pois atendiam a objetivos educacionais diferentes. No Estudo 2 verificou-se que o MC-PREP não influenciou fortemente a elaboração do MC-AVAL, pois a diminuição da carga extrínseca provocada pela elaboração de MC-PREP não foi suficiente para mostrar diferenças entre os grupos, já que ambos estavam altamente treinados na técnica de mapeamento conceitual. Por fim, no Estudo 3, o principal fator correlacionando o conhecimento declarativo com a complexidade dos mapas conceituais foi o percentual de proposições apropriadas. As conclusões do trabalho são que a demanda de elaboração do mapa conceitual é realmente orientadora de produto, a elaboração de um mapa conceitual a mais em um grupo bem treinado na técnica não altera seu desempenho e o principal meio de avaliar os mapas conceituais deve ser a leitura de suas proposições constituintes. / Concept maps are graphical tools that allows the representation of the student\'s mental models. Due to this capacity, the concept map can be used as an assessement tool of knowledge. The use of this tool in the classroom generates loads in working memory which can be related to the content (intrinsic load) or how this feature is being used in the classroom (extrinsic load). This study aims to investigate how the concept maps help to assess learning in the Natural Science: Science, Culture and Society course offered at the University of São Paulo for students of various undergraduate courses (n = 64) during the 2013.1 on the content of climate change. In the course, conceptual map could be used as a preparation tool for test (CM-PREP) and was also used as part of the formal evaluation of the course (CM-EVAL). This research is composed of three studies that investigate: 1. Differences in conceptual maps profiles obtained on condition of CM-PREP x CMEVAL; 2. If the group of students who took CM-PREP had a different profile in CMAVAL of those who did not; 3. The existence of a correlation between CM-EVAL features with the declarative knowledge of students. Concept maps were evaluated considering structural and semantic aspects. The methodologies of analyzes are taken from other papers. Among the semantic aspects were the use of instructional materials, the nature of the propositions, the presence of errors and adhesion to focus question. In addition to these analyzes, it was verified the presence of natural groups that could be explained with the use of theoretical categories. Analysis of the results indicates that the conceptual maps of the CM-PREP and CM-EVAL conditions are quite distinct from each other as it catered to different educational goals. At the Study 2, it was found that the CM-PREP not strongly influenced the development of CM-EVAL, as the reduction of extrinsic charge caused by CM-PREP elaboration was not enough to show differences between the groups, since both were highly trained in conceptual mapping technique. Finally, in Study 3, the main factor correlating the declarative knowledge to the complexity of the conceptual maps was the percentage of appropriate propositions. We concluded that the demand of elaboration of the conceptual map is actually the guide to the type of conceptual map obtained, the elaboration of CM-PREP does not change in a well-trained group in the technique and the main method of assessing concept maps should be reading its propositions.

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[pt] Neste estudo, investigo a relação família-escola no contexto da avaliação da aprendizagem – fonte de tensão, implícita ou explícita no domínio escolar – por meio da investigação de entendimentos acerca de experiências vividas no fazer docente e reelaboradas, pelos professores, de forma colaborativa na interação em três reuniões pedagógicas. Na reflexão, também considero as concepções e crenças emergentes na interação sobre o processo de ensino-aprendizagem e a avaliação. O cenário de pesquisa está centrado nas reuniões pedagógicas de professores de inglês como língua estrangeira no Ensino Infantil, Fundamental e Médio, grupo do qual faço parte, em uma escola de elite da rede privada de ensino do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Sob a luz de uma Linguística Aplicada indisciplinar, esta pesquisa de natureza qualitativa busca promover um diálogo entre as áreas dos estudos da linguagem e da educação, abordando a relação entre linguagem e sociedade. Para a análise, recorro à teoria do posicionamento em interface com postulados teóricos de estudos da narrativa. Pautando-me em pressupostos sobre a conarração, articulo elementos da narrativa conversacional a conceitos da narrativa laboviana. A sequencialidade e a interação são analisadas no cenário coletivo e partilhado pelos professores, com inserção de narrativas sobre o fazer docente, envolvendo pais de alunos e alunos, participantes não presenciais da reunião, trazidos para a interação por intermédio da narrativização de experiências vividas pelos professores no âmbito escolar. Os resultados revelam que os professores recorrem à narrativização de experiências da prática profissional para expressar percepções que são resignificadas à luz de novos entendimentos construídos na interação. A construção de entendimentos realiza-se em dois níveis discursivos: a conarração interacional e as narrativas encaixadas, e indica que o fazer docente dos participantes é alicerçado pelas experiências partilhadas na interação em reuniões pedagógicas. A análise dos posicionamentos de conarradores e personagens sugere a necessidade de reconfigurações na relação família-escola quanto à conscientização e ao cumprimento de responsabilidades de docentes, discentes e famílias acerca da avaliação, no sentido de evitar a transferência de responsabilidades e a culpabilização dos professores por resultados insatisfatórios no desempenho dos alunos. Os resultados fomentam a discussão a respeito da relação família-escola no contexto da avaliação da aprendizagem, pondo foco em cinco aspectos do processo de avaliação: i) o processo e suas etapas; ii) o resultado da avaliação; iii) o papel do professor no desenvolvimento do processo; iv) a responsabilidade e autonomia do aluno na construção do processo e no resultado da avaliação; v) a função da família no referido cenário. / [en] In this study, I investigate the family-school relationship in the context of learning assessment – an implicit or explicit source of tension in the school domain – by means of the construction of understandings about experiences lived by teachers in their pedagogical practices, and rebuilt collaboratively in on-going interaction in three pedagogical meetings. The research context is the pedagogical meetings of Elementary and High School teachers of English as a foreign language at a private elite school in the state of Rio de Janeiro. In light of a crtical Applied Linguistics, this qualitative research seeks to promote dialogue between the field of language studies and education, by addressing the relationship between language and society. In the investigation, I also consider the concepts and beliefs about the teaching-learning process and learning assessment that emerge in on-going interaction. For the analysis, I resort to positioning theory in interface with theoretical constructs from narrative studies. Subsidized by pressupositions about co-narration, I employ elements of Labovian narrative and concepts about conversational narrative. Sequentiality and interaction are analyzed in the context shared collectively by teachers, with the embedding of narratives related to their pedagogical practice, involving students and students parents, participants not present in the meetings, brought to interaction by narrativization of the teachers experiences in the school setting. Results reveal that teachers resort to narrativization of experiences from their pedagogical practice in order to express perceptions which are resignified in light of new understandings constructed in interaction. The construction of understandings takes place on two discourse levels: the interactional co-narration and the embedded narratives, and indicates that these teachers pedagogical practice is based on the experiences shared in interaction in pedagogical meetings. The positioning of co-narrators and characters in narrative and the construction of understandings suggest the need of reconfigurations in the family-school relationship regarding teachers, students and parents awareness and fulfillment of responsibilities about the learning assessment so as to avoid transfering responsibilities and blamimg teachers for the unsatisfactory results of students performances. The results foster a discussion about family-school relationship in the context of learning assessment by fousing on five aspects of the learning assessment process: i) the process and its different stages; ii) the assessment result; iii) the teacher’s role in the development of the process; iv) the student s responsibility and autonomy in the construction of the process and in the assessment result; v) the family function in the aforementioned context.

L’évaluation des apprentissages est un thème central dans le contexte scolaire qui préoccupe de nombreux acteurs s’inscrivant de près ou de loin dans le quotidien des salles de classe et des pratiques et décisions qui s’articulent au sein de celles-ci : ministères de l’Éducation, directions d’établissements, enseignants, élèves et parents. En parallèle, les concepts d’efficacité et de performance sous-jacents au néolibéralisme (Levasseur, 2006) tendent à se tailler une place grandissante dans certains pans de la gestion du système éducatif québécois, entre autres (Duclos, 2014). Dans d’autres systèmes éducatifs, comme celui de la Finlande, c’est plutôt la mise de l’avant du processus d’apprentissage et de l’accompagnement de l’élève dans ce processus par le biais de l’évaluation qui ressort apparemment du discours éducatif. Les pratiques d’évaluation des apprentissages, puisqu’elles sont à la fois soumises à de nombreuses contraintes et dynamiques sociales ayant cours entre plusieurs acteurs scolaires ou extrascolaires, peuvent constituer un reflet pertinent du contexte éducatif et évaluatif au sein duquel elles s’insèrent. D’un autre côté, d’autres acteurs du milieu scolaire peuvent aussi nous permettre de mieux comprendre les enjeux et mécanismes entourant l’évaluation des apprentissages : les élèves. Comment vivent-ils avec l’évaluation dans le contexte éducatif précis qui les concerne ? S’agit-il d’un passage obligé sans réelles conséquences graves ou d’un processus plus difficilement vécu par ces derniers ? La littérature relève à ce propos plusieurs impacts significatifs de l’évaluation sur les élèves. C’est donc en nous attardant non seulement aux perceptions d’enseignants quant à de tels impacts et aux éléments influençant leurs choix évaluatifs, mais aussi aux pratiques évaluatives autodéclarées de ces acteurs du contexte scolaire que nous avons tenté d’appréhender la culture évaluative de deux contextes bien distincts : celui du Québec et de la Finlande. Cette recherche de maitrise se veut explorer, d’un point de vue sociologique interactionniste, les mécanismes de création et de variation d’une telle culture dans différents contextes ainsi que les possibles retombées de celle-ci sur les élèves. Cette exploration a été permise notamment par un fort désir de recours au terrain nous ayant menés à réaliser des entretiens avec des enseignants issus des deux contextes étudiés. / Learning assessment is a central theme in the school context that preoccupies many actors who are involved in the day-to-day life of classrooms and the practices and decisions that are made within them: Departments of Education, school principals, teachers, students and parents. Concurrently, the concepts of efficiency and performance inherent to neoliberalism (Levasseur, 2006) tend to play an increasingly important role in certain management aspects of the Quebec education system, among others (Duclos, 2014). In other education systems, such as Finland’s, it is rather the emphasis on the learning process and supporting the student in this process through evaluation that apparently emerges from the educational discourse. Since learning assessment practices are subject to numerous constraints and social dynamics between several school or out-of-school actors, they can accurately reflect the educational and assessment context in which they are used. However, there are other actors in the school environment can also help us better understand the issues and mechanisms surrounding learning assessment: the students themselves. How do they cope with evaluation in the specific educational context that concerns them? Is it an obligatory step with no real serious consequences, or is it a process that is more difficult for them? In this regard, the literature identifies several significant impacts of evaluation on students. By focusing not only on teachers’ perceptions of such impacts and the elements influencing their evaluative choices, but also on the self-declared evaluative practices of these actors in the school context, we have attempted to understand the evaluative culture of two very distinct contexts: Quebec and Finland. This master’s research aims to explore, from a sociological interactionist point of view, the creation and variation mechanisms of such a culture in different contexts as well as the possible repercussions of this culture on the students. This exploration was made possible by a strong desire to do fieldwork, which led us to conduct interviews with teachers from the two contexts studied.

[pt] Analisar as representações sociais (RS) de avaliação da aprendizagem entre professores de Biologia de uma escola de referência constitui o objetivo desta tese de doutorado. A pesquisa foi realizada em uma instituição pública de ensino do Rio de Janeiro, reconhecida como uma escola de excelência na educação básica. O estudo se desenvolve com o suporte da Teoria das Representações Sociais, sob a perspectiva da abordagem estrutural e do estudo de suas ancoragens. Parte-se da hipótese de que as especificidades das disciplinas de Ciências estão presentes nas práticas pedagógicas avaliativas dos docentes, expressando-se na identidade do ser professor de Biologia e se refletindo em sua forma de ensinar e avaliar, logo podem ser identificadas em suas RS. Os procedimentos metodológicos ocorreram em três etapas que envolveram a aplicação de dois questionários – um teste de livre associação de palavras, respondido por 60 professores, e outro de investigação da zona muda, respondido por 45 professores – e a realização de entrevistas com 12 professores de Biologia do campo de investigação. As discussões foram construídas com base em referenciais teóricos da didática e da avaliação: Hadji, Esteban, Perrenoud, Fernandes, Luckesi, Demo e Hoffmann. Além do diálogo com a teoria das RS, com base nos estudos de Moscovici, Jodelet e Abric. Ao longo da análise, foi possível evidenciar a visão de uma prática pedagógica classificatória, somativa e certificativa, naquilo que os professores representaram. Os dados sinalizam que as RS de avaliação da aprendizagem da maioria dos participantes se configuram a partir de elementos tradicionais do campo educacional – sua visão de ensino, de currículo, de escola e da escola. Essas RS são influenciadas pelas injunções institucionais e expectativas normatizadas quanto ao papel do professor, de tal maneira que os saberes epistemológicos das disciplinas de Ciências são pouco evidenciados no pensamento social sobre tais práticas. Por outro lado, uma parte menos evidente dos participantes destaca-se nos resultados: as suas RS de avaliação se aproximam de uma dimensão formativa, processual e contínua. Neste grupo de professores de Biologia, há fortes indícios de que suas ideias sobre inovações curriculares do ensino de Ciências/Biologia são um dos fatores associados a uma RS mais formativa da avaliação, que orienta suas práticas pedagógicas. Pode-se indicar que a maneira como os professores veem o porquê e o para quê ensinar determinados assuntos, somada a suas idealizações das finalidades da escola e do ensino de Biologia estão indissociavelmente interligadas à efetivação de práticas avaliativas mais formativas ou mais classificatórias. Conclui-se que as práticas avaliativas e suas representações sociais dos professores de Biologia investigados podem se aproximar de um projeto de apoio às aprendizagens dos estudantes, mesmo em um contexto escolar marcado pela tradição, pelo conteudismo e por injunções institucionais com forte normatividade dos processos avaliativos. O estudo aponta para a necessidade de políticas institucionais que incentivem uma avaliação voltada para apoiar os estudantes em suas aprendizagens. Destaca-se a importância dos professores vivenciarem as práticas idealizadas pelo campo pedagógico, em todas as etapas de sua formação inicial e continuada. A tese defende que esse movimento poderia ajudar a superar um modelo classificatório de avaliação no ensino de Biologia. / [en] Analyzing the social representations (SRs) of assessment for learning among Biology teachers in a leading school is the aim of this doctoral thesis. The research was conducted in a renowned public elementary school in Rio de Janeiro. The study is carried out by employing the Social Representation Theory (SRT) under a structural approach perspective and the analysis of its anchors. It is assumed that the specificities of Scientific Disciplines are present in the Biology teachers pedagogical practices of assessment, expressed in their identity and reflected in their way of teaching and evaluating - thus, in their SRs. The methodological procedures occurred in three stages that involved the usage of two questionnaires - a word association test taken by 60 teachers, and a mute zone investigation answered by 45 teachers - and interviews with 12 Biology teachers from the field of research. The discussions were centered on practices of teaching and assessment by using theoretical references such as Hadji, Esteban, Perrenoud, Fernandes, Luckesi, Demo and Hoffmann besides a dialogue with the SRT based on the studies of Moscovici, Jodelet and Abric. Throughout the analysis, it was possible to confirm the hypothesis of a summative pedagogical practice - focused on classification and certification. The data show that most participants SRs of assessment for learning - their view on teaching, syllabus and school - are based on traditional elements of the educational field. It is suggested that an epistemological, social side of Scientific Disciplines is not very evident when these SRs are influenced by both institutional orders and standardized expectations of the role of the teacher. In contrast, a smaller part of the participants stands out in the results: their SRs of assessment approach a formative, procedural and continuous dimension. This latter group of Biology teachers shows strong evidence that their ideas about syllabus innovations of Sciences/Biology are one of the factors associated with a more formative SR that guides their pedagogical practices. It is possible to suggest that the way in which teachers see the reason behind teaching Biology, added to their idealizations of the purpose of the school, are inextricably connected to the implementation of assessment practices that can be either more formative or summative. It is concluded that the assessment practices and their social representations of the Biology teachers who were investigated can carry out a project to support students learning, even in a school context marked by tradition, content and institutional orders with strong normative evaluation processes. The study indicates the need for institutional policies which promote a student-centered assessment - focused on their learning processes. It is of paramount importance for future teachers to experience the practices conceived by the pedagogical field in all stages of their initial and continuing education. The thesis argues that this movement could help overcome a classification model of evaluation in teaching Biology.

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This study was devoted to researching the effectiveness of e-learning, in terms of the reported experiences of the Language Services section employees in Parliament RSA. At present, the internet is seen as a successful and influential educational tool in both academic and corporate institutions. Academically, it has been adopted for e-learning methods of teaching and learning. It is perceived as a cost-effective method of providing lifelong education. It is important to know about the pros and cons of e-learning in adult education and compare them with the experiences of the people who are and have been engaged in adult education. To create an adult education skills development framework that can be used successfully in e-learning, it is important to get information about and from the people concerned regarding their learning experiences. To understand more about the influence of e-learning, this study administered a questionnaire to the employees of the Language Services Section of Parliament who participated in the pilot learning programmes offered by Parliament. The questionnaire was designed to gather structured responses from the participants in the inquiry. The results were studied and applied to draw recommendations for what can be improved in the programme to promote and endorse continuing learning experiences as is the aim of the in-house programme offered by Parliament. The study also has relevance in terms of a discussion of issues that arise in the literature on adult education, which were located as part of the study. / Educational Studies / M. Ed. (Adult Education)

Through prior learning assessment (PLA) programs, students' professional and life experiences are evaluated to determine if they equate to college program courses-removing the need for the student to complete traditional college courses to earn a postsecondary degree. The purpose of this study was to examine the perspectives of faculty at the study site on the academic preparedness of nontraditional students. Knowles' andragogy theory guided the research questions on the academic preparedness of students earning prior learning credits and what characteristics of PLA programs faculty believe contribute to the academic success of these students. Thirty-six participants completed a survey where they provided narratives that were coded to determine overarching themes. The findings of this case study suggested that faculty believed that nontraditional students who earned credits through PLA are independent, motivated, and knowledgeable, but whether or not they are academically prepared seemed to vary by academic program. The findings also suggested that, while PLA programs have limitations because of student perceptions that may conflict with reality and the limited usability of PLA across academic programs, PLA programs provide a time benefit to students by allowing a shorter time to degree. The study supports positive social change by providing a resource for future development and growth of PLA programs to expand student access and options in obtaining postsecondary credentials while also lowering postsecondary education cost.