Avaliação de competências no ensino fundamental: a experiência da Escola Lumiar

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Chaves, Paloma Epprecht e Machado de Campos
• Orientador(a): Almeida, Fernando José de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação: Currículo
• Departamento: Educação
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Avaliação de aprendizagem; Currículo; Competências; Tecnologia; Escola Lumiar
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Learning evaluation; Curriculum; Competencies; Technology
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9672

The objective of this work is to investigate ways in which to analyze the challenge posed by the evaluation of competencies in Fundamental Education (Grades 1 through 9) and to suggest forms in which this challenge can be faced. The challenge arises from the fact that the evaluative strategies and procedures of the conventional school are centered on quizzes, tests and exams which were conceived for the assessment of the level of assimilation, by the students, of information and knowledge imparted to them by the teachers and, therefore, are not adequate in the case of the evaluation of competencies. The methods used in the research were, essentially, those employed in documental analysis, with the incorporation of elements of participatory research. The focus of the research was a network of schools that organized their curriculum in the form of competencies. The school network is called Lumiar. It developed an innovative educational technology called "Mosaic". Besides focusing on a curriculum organized around clusters of competencies, the Mosaic presents other interesting elements, such as a methodology based on learning projects and a project databank. The documents that were analyzed cover the period of 2006-2009 and include the Theorico-Pedagogical Framework of the school network, its Matrix of Competencies, its Methodology, its Evaluative Strategies and Procedures, the directives for the development of the "Digital Mosaic", as well as the routine papers of the school. The research, which uses as reference three educational paradigms (objectivist, subjectivist and dialectical), allowed the following inferences. First, that the theoreticopedagogical framework of the school is coherent with the dialectical paradigm, which emphasizes the need to value the role of students as agents, subjects and protagonists of their own learning, in a dialogical context, in partnership with those with whom they interact. Second, that the strategies and procedures of evaluation, which, according to the dialectical paradigm, ought to be an integral part of the learning process, taking place in the process of partnership between the students and those with whom they interact, were, in reality, more aligned with the objectivist paradigm, causing an incoherence in the process which must be eliminated before one can discuss the evaluation of competencies in a coherent manner. Third, that the evaluation of competencies in the dialectical paradigm requires technological resources that favor and facilitate communication and interaction between the students and those with whom they communicate and interact and that permit careful registration of these interactions and of the learning process as a whole. Fourth, that the "Digital Mosaic", that was implemented in a preliminary, beta version, would be able to satisfy these requirements if it were reconceived within the dialectical paradigm and were expanded to incorporate more recent technological resources (such as Web 2.0)