A avaliação das aprendizagens em matemática: uma metanálise a partir de teses brasileiras

Abstract

The evaluation of learning in mathematics has been a focus in dialogues and consequent research concerned with the promotion of knowledge. For many years the evaluation was taken as a mere verifier of knowledge, from the perspective that the teacher understood necessary and sufficient that was learned. The student was a mere depository of knowledge and also subject to verification. The formative processes evolved and in contradiction to the controls imposed by world financing of the education of emergent countries, one saw, for example, the diverse models of Large-Scale and external evaluation of them, understanding that in this way it would be possible to understand how the students were presenting their performance. This made the anxieties mobilize us to understand how the Academy presented the Evaluation in its researches, because I understand that this delimitation can bring a profile of the Evaluation in the country from the University as a producer of knowledge. Therefore, immersion in the readings on the subject and in the dialogues made me problematize the situations that troubled me to answer the question: how is the evaluation of learning in mathematics in Brazilian doctoral research? Therefore, I proposed to investigate the presentation of the evaluation of learning in mathematics, based on the theories, epistemologies, principles and precepts presented in Brazilian theses between 2011 and 2015, emphasizing the proposed assessment knowledge. The methodology adopted for this process was the meta-analysis, since it is understood that analytical analysis is a relevant action for future research in the field and for the use of the mathematics teacher educator, highlighting, in a process that, together with the systematic review, may respond to guiding question. After diving in the Platform Sucupira, through the thesis bank, I made a tiresome search of the theses that adopted the terms evaluation and mathematics, so that the 17 theses outlined in the various doctoral programs that had a direct relationship with Mathematics Education could be reached. With the research corpus delimited, I set out to analyze the analyzes, where I infer, through the hermeneutic interpretation, what were presented in the three axes of analysis constituted, defined as Propositional Elements, Methodological Elements and Conclusive Elements. With the research, I could recognize that among the seventeen theses studied, eight of them do not deal with the Evaluation as a central theme, and the remaining nine that deal with the theme in their research focus, are placed under several reverberations of Evaluation in the educational context: evaluation as a research practice, external evaluation as a tool for studies around mathematical knowledge and the Evaluation of learning in higher education. Among what I can define as a conclusion, I affirm the importance of establishing spaces for evaluative dialogues in educational institutions, in formal and non-formal environments. Still on the theses, I consider that there are some obstacles that I call obstacles, which prevent certain conceptions about evaluation: the absence of dialogues on evaluation; the separation of didactic-pedagogical and specific training; the requirement to comply with a curriculum imposed and imposed; the emphasis on the results of external evaluations; shortage of academic meetings that disrupt educational programs; a mechanical reproduction of assessment as part of the teaching-learning process. Therefore, I understand this thesis as a driver of new research that studies the evaluation, its perceptions, practices and contexts of concepts and educational operationalization.