Avaliação das aprendizagens: uma possível articulação entre avaliação somativa e formativa em matemática

Abstract

This research emerged from the need to study pedagogical evaluation and also on how teachers use external evaluation to improve mathematics teaching in the early years. The investigation was developed with a qualitative approach of an interpretative nature, in the form of a collective instrumental case study. The general objective of the research is to analyze how teachers use external evaluation to improve their teaching practices in mathematics in the early years and the thesis presented is that the practice of evaluation in an articulated perspective can consolidate the relevance of pedagogical evaluation for the improvement of student learning and education management. Dimensions such as summative assessment, formative assessment, mathematics teaching and external assessment are analyzed, as well as an articulated perspective of assessment in the classroom. The empirical data were the object of a content analysis guided by a reference matrix, elaborated with the theme of evaluation, present in the dialogues with the researched teachers and in the theoretical framework adopted on internal and external evaluation. We considered in the research that external evaluation has subsidies that can be considered in the pedagogical evaluation process and that it should be at the service of improving students' learning. The data showed that teachers seek to know the results of external evaluation and are concerned with students' performance in mathematics and also, in a non-formal way, pedagogically analyze external data and make connections with the organization of teaching, learning and internal evaluation of the school. They commonly understand evaluation as a diagnostic function and recognize the need for theoretical deepening in Mathematics. They share with the school team the planning of teaching and assessment practices to improve student performance in external exams and point to the perspective of developing assessment practices that are at the service of improving student learnin.