Submitted by Viviane Lima da Cunha (viviane@biblioteca.ufpb.br) on 2016-04-19T12:28:02Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1375388 bytes, checksum: dd9bc9c6b58bce06dcbd6cf754f6ca83 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-19T12:28:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1375388 bytes, checksum: dd9bc9c6b58bce06dcbd6cf754f6ca83 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-06-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / In Brazil, currently the education sector has been undergoing transformations involving from curriculum reform to implementation assessments at the national level to identify the hot spots of high school. This work aims to analyze the teaching process learning in Geography in high school, with the empirical basis of the analysis state schools Calpurnia Caldas de Amorim and Educational Center José Augusto, and private Diocesan College Seridoense and Integrated Educational Center Seridó, both located in the city of Caicó, State of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. The issue that aroused the interest in research is anchored in the poor performance of students in the discourse of vestibular tests in UFRN, and the time frame the period between 2002 and 2012. In terms of methodology, the research was based on bibliographic research, documentary, interview written with the Geography teachers of educational institutions, as well as visits at different times to those schools. The results indicate that the teaching staff is made up of graduates in Geography, all with over 20 years of experience in the class room and experts. In addition, it was found that there is virtually no planning, teachers just follow the contents proposed in the textbook or the guidelines of education systems. Another item that deserves to be highlighted concerns the evaluation instruments, because while it predominate objective assessments in schools, vestibular students were also subjected to essay questions, and these mostly developed in context and with different languages. Therefore, not diversification of these instruments in schools may have contributed over the years so that students were able to unsatisfactory results. / No Brasil, atualmente, o setor educacional vem passando por transformações que envolvem desde reformas curriculares até a implantação de avaliações em nível nacional, visando identificar os pontos nevrálgicos do Ensino Médio. Neste trabalho, objetiva-se analisar o processo de ensino-aprendizagem de Geografia no Ensino Médio, tendo como base empírica de análise a Escola Estadual Calpúrnia Caldas de Amorim, o Centro Educacional José Augusto e as escolas privadas Colégio Diocesano Seridoense e Centro Educacional Integrado do Seridó, todas localizadas na cidade de Caicó, estado do Rio Grande do Norte – Brasil. A problemática que suscitou o interesse pela pesquisa está ancorada no fraco desempenho dos alunos nas provas discursivas dos vestibulares da UFRN e o seu recorte temporal compreende o período entre 2002 e 2012. Metodologicamente, este trabalho foi realizado com base em pesquisa bibliográfica, documental, entrevista semiestruturada com os professores de Geografia das instituições de ensino, além de visitas em diferentes momentos a essas escolas. Os resultados indicam que o quadro docente é formado por licenciados em Geografia, alguns com mais de 20 anos de experiência em sala de aula e especialistas. Além disso, constatou-se que praticamente não existe planejamento, tendo em vista que os professores apenas seguem os conteúdos propostos no livro didático ou nas orientações dos sistemas de ensino. Outro item que merece ser destacado diz respeito aos instrumentos avaliativos, pois, enquanto predominam avaliações objetivas nas escolas, nos vestibulares os alunos também eram submetidos a questões discursivas, sendo estas, em sua maioria, elaboradas de forma contextualizada e com diferentes linguagens. Assim sendo, a não diversificação desses instrumentos nas escolas pode ter contribuído ao longo dos anos para que os alunos não conseguissem resultados satisfatórios.

Esta pesquisa buscou investigar as implicações da progressão continuada e do Sistema de Avaliação do Rendimento Escolar do Estado de São Paulo (SARESP) na avaliação escolar. Procurou-se identificar e analisar eventuais alterações ocorridas na avaliação, induzidas pela implantação dessas medidas. Para tanto, realizou-se investigação de natureza qualitativa, procedendo ao levantamento e análise de pesquisas acadêmicas acerca de ambos os temas, aplicação de questionários e realização de entrevistas com professores coordenadores de escolas de uma Diretoria Regional de Ensino da rede estadual paulista. Concluiu-se que tanto a progressão continuada como o SARESP estão refletindo na avaliação escolar. Identificou-se que a progressão continuada tende a influenciar mais o discurso do que as práticas avaliativas e enfrenta maior resistência do professorado. O SARESP tem assumido, gradualmente, o papel de orientador de práticas escolares, sendo utilizado no planejamento e replanejamento das escolas. Tem repercutido nas práticas avaliativas, induzindo ao fortalecimento de uma concepção de verificação escolar, em detrimento da avaliação formativa, potencializada pela progressão continuada. O dilema causado pela convivência dessas medidas evidencia um confronto entre a lógica da avaliação formativa com práticas tradicionalmente desenvolvidas nas escolas, que tendem a restringir a avaliação à medida de resultados, com fim classificatório. O SARESP, ao servir como referência para organização das práticas escolares e avaliativas, potencializa a tensão entre a avaliação tradicional e a avaliação formativa. Devido à importância que tem adquirido na política educacional, evidenciou-se a tendência em tornar-se, gradativamente, indutor do trabalho escolar. / This research has served the purpose to investigate the implications of continuous progress and Student Performance Appraisal System in the State of São Paulo (SARESP) on school evaluation. We have identified and analyzed alterations on the evaluations which were induced by the implementation of these procedures. Therefore, we proceeded to investigate the qualitative nature of these implications by analyzing data from academic research around both topics; we also applied some questionnaires and interviews with coordinators from schools of a Regional Directory in the local public school system. We have come to the conclusion that both the continuous progress and SARESP affect school evaluation. The continuous progress has a tendency to affect rather the discourses than the evaluative practices and teachers are much more resistant to it. SARESP has gradually taken up the role of a practice guide and it is used for school planning. We can see its effect on evaluative practices invigorating some conception of school assessment to the loss of formative evaluation which has been maximized by continuous progress. The dilemma that has arisen from these two procedures sheds some light on the confrontation between the logic of formative evaluation and traditionally-developed practices at schools which tend to narrow evaluations to mere results in order to achieve classification. SARESP, when it serves as a guide to the organization of school and evaluative practices, maximize the tension between traditional and formative evaluations. Due to its relevance in the educational politics, it is evident that it will gradually become an organizer for school practices.

The diploma thesis has got a theoretical and research character. The theoretical part deals with the school assessment and evaluation methods. Considerable attention is paid to formative assessment, portfolio and work with the assessment. The results of the research are presented in the research section, the research was focused on work with a portfolio in the concept of two different teachers. Part of the research is devoted to presentations of the final portfolio, which will be held at the end of the 5th class. Furthermore, there are interviews with pupils about portfolicontain. KEYWORDS School evaluation Formative assessment Verbal evaluation Self-assessment Portfolio

M.Ed. / Appraisal seems to be a relevant instrument to facilitate the professional growth of educators and school improvement. However, if the process of appraisal is to be part of the development of educators and of schools, it needs to be part of the pattern of school life and linked to the school’s developmental activities. It needs to be context-based within the legal framework provided by the Department of Education (DoE). Appraisal should be a natural progression from the staff development and school development planning. Staff and professional strategies should enable schools and educators to gain skills and understanding, necessary to participate in appraisal. Appraisal should be set in the context of the objectives of the schools which will generally be expressed in a school development plan. The school’s objectives in a particular year, should be linked with appraisal, so that for example, professional development targets arising from appraisal, may be related to agreed targets and tasks in the development plan. This will help to speed up the process of facilitation of the professional growth of educators. A school which is self-developing and self-evaluating, is likely to be one in which all educators exchange ideas, share concerns, contribute to discussion, take part in the process of decision-making and have individual areas of strength and weaknesses identified and supported (Jones, 1993:10). In basic terms, the facilitation of appraisal will assist with the setting of whole school targets and identification of professional needs. / Dr. P.J. du Plessis

In the theoretical part, the work first deals with school evaluation, its connection with educational goals and its functions. Then the theoretical part introduces the types of school evaluation, as well as its methods and types. The main part of the theoretical part of this work deals with verbal evaluation. First, the concept of verbal evaluation will be defined. Then the work introduces the types of verbal evaluation. The work then deals with the topic of criteria and its connection with verbal evaluation. The following chapter deals with diagnostics and observations before writing verbal evaluation. The next chapters are devoted to the very creation of verbal evaluation. First, the work deals with what should be the content of verbal evaluation and then the principles of its writing and formulations. Next, we will show the advantages and disadvantages of this form of evaluation. The last chapter deals with verbal assessment in students with specific learning and behavioral disorders. The aim of the work is to find out whether the recommendations are fulfilled and the rules stated in the literature are applied in practice, or what deviations from these recommendations arise. The practical part deals with the analysis of verbal evaluations, which are supplemented by a questionnaire. The analysis...

This thesis is focusing on school evaluation from the point of view of its specifics and functionality in regard to its motivation purpose. The findings regarding evaluation are shown in an independent chapter showing the positive and negative aspects of forms of assessment in practical application. Following chapter dealing with motivation describes needs in relation to school activities as well as brief explanation of causal attribution. More attention is paid to the achievement motivation, especially to characteristics of needs for achievement in relation to pupils' responses to mental stress in task situations. There are briefly mentioned some of the newer motivational theories and their application in school showing the possible modification of outer motivation to autonomy. Widely processed are methods and aspects of evaluation that support motivation and provide pupils with examples for self- assessment. Qualitative research is focused on assessment processes leading to positive motivation. Concluding proposition summarizes several recommendations for teacher in the role of evaluator. Keywords School evaluation, motivation, achievement motivation, self-appraisal.

This thesis is a descriptive case study of the first sustainability magnet themed elementary school in the U.S., the Sustainability Academy (SA) in Burlington, VT. The thesis provides an in depth case study narrative of the first pilot year of the SA (2009) as well as an examination of the analytical frameworks for evaluating the efficacy of sustainability movements in schools. A literature review is provided to distinguish between a type of static sustainability that supports the current educational paradigm and a type of sustainable education that identifies sustainability as a moving target and a deep process to transcend the current education paradigm. A step-by-step process for school evaluations of sustainability education is explored and discussed using: 1) the case study research of the SA in their pilot year; 2) the literature review on education and sustainability, systems thinking and school transformation; and 3) the exploration and adaptation of analytical frameworks for sustainability in education.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:44:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LYDIA GODOY MILANO.pdf: 1048084 bytes, checksum: 445fc67e69f7144603a3ee67e2bdccfe (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-03 / The reforms in the Brazilian Educational System that started in 1990 s culminated in various changes and educational concepts with the monitoring of school performances through a large-scale evaluation system. In such a way that the evaluation results measured by IDEB (Basic Education Development Index), since its implementation, has been showing a relative growth in every stage of education, however it still shows low results in school development. Since this has been observed, the aim of this study has been to find explanations and a more grounded comprehension about the failure of the public schools in Brazil, concerning the educational outcome of the pupil, having as reference a database from a municipal system of teaching. This study was based on the analysis of official documents related to education policies for the school and on field research in two municipal schools in the city of Goiânia, where observations of the routine of these schools took place as well as interviews with head teachers, deputy head teachers and teachers. The results confirm the hypothesis that one of the strongest explanations for the low pupil s performance in the standard examinations is precisely in the fact that the education policies as based on the results, hold the teachers accountable for the unsatisfactory pupil s performance, and release them from the internal factors that interfere in the pupil s learning. It also confirms some authors position that in opposition to those policies, recommend not to lose from sight the organisational conditions, the curriculum, the pedagogical practices, teaching methods and so on, when analysing the success or failure conditions, which are real and concrete conditions that produce the learning and development of the pupils. / As reformas do sistema educacional brasileiro a partir da década de 1990, culminaram, entre várias mudanças e concepções de educação, com o monitoramento do desempenho escolar a partir de um sistema de avaliação em larga escala. De forma que, os resultados das avaliações aferidos pelo IDEB, desde sua implementação, têm demonstrando relativo crescimento em todas as etapas do ensino, mas ainda conferindo baixo resultado do desempenho escolar. A partir desta constatação, este estudo teve por objetivo a busca de explicações e compreensão mais fundamentada do insucesso da escola pública no Brasil em relação à aprendizagem escolar dos alunos, tendo como referência dados e informações a partir de um sistema de ensino municipal. O estudo baseou-se na análise de documentos oficiais referentes a políticas educacionais para a escola e em pesquisa de campo em duas escolas municipais da cidade de Goiânia, onde foram realizadas observações do cotidiano dessas escolas e entrevistas com diretoras, coordenadores e professoras. Os resultados apontam para a confirmação da hipótese de que uma das explicações mais fortes do baixo desempenho dos alunos nas provas estandardizadas está precisamente no fato de as políticas educacionais assentadas em resultados, ao responsabilizarem as escolas e os professores pelo desempenho insatisfatório dos alunos, se desresponsabilizam pelos fatores internos que interferem em sua aprendizagem. Confirma, também, a posição de alguns autores que, em direção contrária àquelas políticas, recomendam não se perder de vista, ao analisar as condições de sucesso ou insucesso escolar, as condições organizacionais, o currículo, as práticas pedagógicas, as metodologias de ensino etc., que são as condições reais e concretas em que se efetivam a aprendizagem e o desenvolvimento dos alunos.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-04T18:32:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 CRISTIANE APARECIDA DOS SANTOS BAGGI.pdf: 303676 bytes, checksum: 8914e5262f6e1e3211a29b0638ff9f66 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-02-24 / School dropout is one the major educational problems both public and private colleges and universities have to face, especially in periods of economical crisis, provoking severe social, academic, and financial consequences. The objective of this research is to discuss the theoretical production surveyed at the Digital Library of Thesis and Dissertations which deal with school dropout and higher education evaluation produced after 1990. After this period, a great increase in the amount of private higher institutions in Brazil was observed. However, researches show that families have been unable to afford their children s education, among other factors that result in dropping out. The methodology adopted in this work was based on a state-of-the-art research referred to as bibliographical investigation, which helps us discuss and map out academic production, combining qualitative and quantitative analyses. The results of the bibliographical investigation on school dropout rates show that, among the most diverse areas of Science, there is a gap or dispersion in theoretical and methodological debates about this issue and few teaching institutions, whether public or private, have specific programs to handle the problem of school dropout. / A evas?o ? um dos problemas educacionais que mais atingem as Institui??es de Ensino Superior, sejam p?blicas ou particulares, principalmente em per?odos de crise econ?mica, gerando graves consequ?ncias sociais, acad?micas e financeiras. O objetivo desta pesquisa ? discutir a produ??o te?rica constante da Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Disserta??es, que aborda os problemas da evas?o e da avalia??o no ensino superior, a partir do fim da d?cada de 1990. A partir desse per?odo, registrou-se, no Brasil, uma intensa expans?o do ensino superior privado, no entanto pesquisas demonstram que as fam?lias t?m tido grande dificuldade em financiar o estudo de seus filhos, al?m de outros fatores que redundam em evas?o. A metodologia adotada neste trabalho baseia-se na pesquisa denominada estado da arte ou estado do conhecimento, definida como uma investiga??o de car?ter bibliogr?fico, que auxilia na discuss?o e no mapeamento da produ??o acad?mica, combinando a an?lise qualitativa com a an?lise quantitativa. Resultados da pesquisa bibliogr?fica sobre a evas?o indicam que, nas mais diferentes ?reas da Ci?ncia, h? uma lacuna ou dispers?o em termos de reflex?o te?rica e metodol?gica sobre o tema, bem como s?o poucas as institui??es de ensino, p?blicas ou particulares, que t?m programas espec?ficos para enfrentar o problema da evas?o.

Πρόσφατα, υπό την επιρροή Διεθνών Οργανισμών και της ΕΕ, η Γερμανία και η Φινλανδία πήραν μέτρα που αφορούν την ανάπτυξη και εξασφάλιση της ποιότητας στην εκπαίδευση γενικά, και στη σχολική μονάδα ειδικότερα. Στην παρούσα μελέτη επιχειρείται η συγκριτική προσέγγιση του γερμανικού και του φινλανδικού εκπαιδευτικού συστήματος στο παράδειγμα της εκπαιδευτικής αξιολόγησης, στην πρωτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση, στη Γερμανία (Βάδη – Βυρτεμβέργη) και στη Φινλανδία. Και οι δύο χώρες αποτελούν μέλη της Ε.Ε. με ισχυρή κρατική πρόνοια αλλά με διαφορετικές ιστορικές, εθνικές καταβολές και διαφορετικό κοινωνικό οικονομικό και πολιτικό υπόβαθρο. / In recent years, under the influence of International Institutes and the EU, initiatives have been taken in Germany and Finland concerning the quality assurance and quality development of education at both the level of the school system and the level of the individual school. In the present study a comparative approach of the German and Finnish educational systems is attempted, in the paradigm of educational school evaluation, focusing on the primary education in Germany (Baden-Wuertemberg) and in Finland. The two countries constitute members of the EU with strong social welfare system but with specific historic and national heritage and different social, economic and political background.