Abstract

O portfólio e a avaliação no ensino superior. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2003, n.28, pp.145-160. ISSN 0103-6831.

The purpose of this study is to discuss the meaning of evaluation based on na experience involving the use of portfolio at college level as an alternative to evaluation of the learning process. This was conducted with 1^st semester students in Dentistry, attending Scientific Methodology classes at the Universidade Estácio de Sá Rio de Janeiro, between 2001 and 2003. It involved 150 students, in 4-hour weekly meetings, amounting to a total workload of 80h in the school semester. The results demonstrated the adequacy of using multiple languages - besides the subject’s scientific one - like reading, writing and research involving revision and reflection strategies about the activities; the constant and permanent dialogue between teacher and student, student and student, the student’s difficulty to prepare the clearly reflective portfolio; emphasis on the learning process and not on the result. It was found that some problems need to be overcome: it is necessary to change the concept of evaluation as quantification which permeates students’ and teachers’ thinking and to include other subjects that can share this practice so that evaluation can start playing a new role in the academic context.

Keywords : Evaluation; University; Portfolio.

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