Abstract

CORTESE, Beatriz Pedro. O que dizem os alunos sobre a Avaliação Escolar. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2006, vol.17, n.35, pp.69-102. ISSN 0103-6831.

“What do students say about assessment?” Aiming at answering this question, in my master’s research I interviewed students in the 4^th year of Elementary School. In order to analyze the meanings produced by them, I made use of notions developed by specialists in school routine, among them José Mário Azanha and Marli André. Also, the ideas about language and discourse presented by Mikhail Bakhtin and reviewed by Mary Jane Spink were essential to unveil the children’s discourse. In this article, the meanings produced by students are divided into seven parts: the first part deals with ideas about word evaluation. Considerations on how and when children perceive educator’s assessment  are found in the second part. At what moments students feel they are allowed to make assessments, and who they are allowed to assess is the topic of the third part, and the fourth is based on the children’s reflections on the objectivity and neutrality of assessment practices. The fifth part refers to the reasons that supposedly guide teachers’ preference for certain students. The interviewees’ representations of the impact of school assessment on current and future relationships are found in the sixth part. In the seventh, we see how students justify their own performance and that of their peers.

Keywords : Production Of Meanings; Evaluation; Student-Teacher Relationship.

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