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LINS, Maria Judith Sucupira da Costa. Uma nova forma de avaliação para o 1º grau. Ensaio: aval. pol. públ. educ. [online]. 1995, vol.03, n.09, pp.433-442. ISSN 0104-4036.

This article tries to explain how evaluation in a school can be possible with the aim of better developing the students without any grade or concepts given by peers or teachers. Different systems of evaluation have been largely tested and used Many of them mainly reinforce the acquisition of some subjects by the child. Some pay attention to the child's development, taking care of his personal changes more than only measuring learning or giving grades according to a desired performance. When we think about evaluation we find different experiments. Here is one of them, what is not supposed to be a pattern, but only a chance of critical analysis related to an educational practice. It is the project from the Bielefeld University In 1968 Prof. Hartmut von Hentig and his team began the studies which culminate with the opening of Laborschule in 1974. There are now a great number of publications concerning each of the aspects of the educational practice, including a follow-up study of the students from Laborschule. At the moment we are interested in the evaluation itself. In order to better understand what this project of evaluation is, one needs to know the basic ideas which inspire this school. First of all Laborschule doesn't make experiments with children. The School is a place of experience, where the child acts. It is different from an experiment because in Laborschule it is one idea that really happens, not a trial-and-error situation. The School is structured as following concerning the school years. Step I - Class 0 tilI 2 (pre-school) Step II - Class 3 and 4 Step III - Class 5 till 7 Step IV - Class 8 till 10 Step I - There are 14 children in each group under one teacher's responsibility with help of special professionals as like for sports and music. There are educational professionals who also take care of the children after lunch hour. There is a special building for these three Classes. The groups are mixed by age, sex and social conditions. Step II - Children are divided in groups by the same age. They are now 20 for each group and they have 2 to 4 teachers. They begin with new subjects, e.g. foreign language (English). Step III - The groups are divided according to the elective subjects and "interest clubs". They begin the second foreign language (French or Latin). Step IV - The students choose special subjects and the have to finish their mandatory subjects, elective subjects and off-school practice. The student gets a report with grades according to the common evaluating system only at the last class (10th) in order to permit him to enter in different high school, if he doesn't stay at Laborschule. This evaluating system sounds strange because any grade or concept is given to the student but at this last school year (10th). This was decided after the observation that the grades do not show how is the student doing at school, not even the subjects are objectively shown. Neither the children themselves, nor their families become aware about the child's development. Instead of the traditional report, there is at Laborschule an evaluating system (also called “information about the learning process”) which shows the school life of the student, his social behavior, his learning and his work with a description of the lessons. This new report brings a better participation than a list of subjects and their respective grades. These reports are important for the teachers who write them because they keep the teachers thinking about each student as an individual besides offer an excellent material to follow the school life of this student. These reports are important for the students and their parents. Parents don't receive lists of grades, without consequence concerning to participation. The reports must bring a participation in all difficulties and gifts, special capacities and personal problems as teachers and educational staff notice them, in order to give the parents and their children a guidance.

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