Concepções de avaliação nos anos iniciais do ensino fundamental: o olhar dos estudantes

Abstract

This work is based on a research on assessment practices in the initial years of elementary school, and its main objective was to understand the meaning of the learning assessment practices for the students of the initial years of elementary education in the municipality of João Pessoa. In addition to seeking to identify how students from 1st to 5th year perceived and characterized learning assessment practices; to verify which feelings the students express in the moments in which they were submitted to the practices of evaluation and to classify the practices of evaluation as to the types, frequency and the feelings expressed, from the voices of the own students. The research was characterized as qualitative and exploratory and had the talk wheel as instrument of data collection. The results indicate that, on evaluation, students mainly understand that they are associated with written tests, and indicate that the results, grades, are overvalued, by the teachers, failing to offer a complete evaluation of the students. Some students do not know when they are being evaluated, in addition to being very worried about the moments of the test, for fear of the below average grades, in the meantime students, feel happy to take the tests. The research also showed that students enjoy more playful activities, which suggest movements, than passive or static activities.