Ambiente virtual para avaliação online por pares no ensino híbrido de matemática

Abstract

The use of Digital Information and Communication Technologies in the classroom is a latent need in brazilian education. Mathematics teaching can be innovated with these technologies and become more attractive to children and young people in the knowledge society. The students need to associate school content with their daily experience and it isn’t possible to do this without computer and internet. There is dissatisfaction with the evaluation in mathematics as the method moves away from the current context, being still stuck in traditional education in times when there were no other resources besides, mainly, the blackboard, chalk, books, notebook and pencil. This work aims to develop a virtual environment for online peer assessment in hybrid mathematics teaching. It is a research, bibliographic and exploratory, taking as a case study the development of the bLearning Math system that was specifically designed to deal with peer assessment in a web environment. The literature shows that there are expectations for alternative mathematical assessment methodologies. Online peer assessment is promising in blended learning while it manages to create collaborative learning possibilities. The bLearning Math meets the requirements raised in the literature, automating intermediate processes and reducing the educator’s workload. The algorithm developed for the distribution of evaluations among students and their peer evaluators, ensures that everyone has the same chance of evaluating the other and being evaluated by anyone. From the feedback of the teacher and the evaluating students, the quantitative score is constructed to represent the student’s academic performance, where a student has responsibility for his own performance and the performance of the other. The bLearning Math will have capacity to deal with alternative assessment methods: observation and registration, tests, tests and written works, assessment cards and portfolio. Guidelines were also prepared to be performed by the teacher, before, during and after the evaluation. The results of this research, in addition to thinking about the redefinition of the process of evaluating learning in mathematics, intend to make the use of computers and the internet more natural as part of the daily life of the school, the teacher and the students. The research focused on the assessment of mathematics in elementary education, but can be extended to other levels of basic education and other areas of knowledge. The bLearning Math was developed until the prototyping phase of the graphical interface. Connection to the Database and usability tests with students and teachers for validation are missing and will be implemented in future work.