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Estudos em Avaliação Educacional

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ALVES, José Joaquim Ferreira Matias  and  CABRAL, Ilídia. The demons of evaluation: memories of teachers from when they were students. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2015, vol.26, n.63, pp.630-662. ISSN 1984-932X.  https://doi.org/10.18222/eae.v26i63.3690.

This article takes forty narratives of teachers who recalled situations of particularly memorable evaluation situations that occurred when they were students. Of these forty narratives, thirty-one express an intolerable abuse of power. Nine express emancipatory evaluative practices. Through an analysis of these discourses, the meanings of the abuses - humiliation, violence, discrimination, deception, arbitrariness - and of the minority emancipation are quantified and qualified, seeking to explain these practices in the light of the historical, social, organizational and professional times. It is concluded that these practices need to be fought against and prevented; and, that stricter policies and practices of access to the profession and the exercise of more interactive pedagogic action are required.

Keywords : Evaluation of Education; Evaluation of Learning; Methods of Evaluation; Psychological Violence.

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