Resumen

DIAS SOBRINHO, José. Exames gerais, provão e avaliação educativa. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 1999, vol.04, n.03, pp.27-50. ISSN 1414-4077.

This text discusses the theoretical and ideological matrix of standardized tests. It mainly criticizes the technological model of evaluation and its effects on education and society. As an instrument of a given view of society, this type of evaluation plays a central role in educational reforms, especially during times of economic and social crises. The National Higher Education Exam (provão) is discussed as a specimen of this general matrix, not from a technical but form an ideological and political perspective. The text also presents some characteristics of an educative evaluation-an evaluation that is committed to the principles of active participation of educational agents in the collective construction of institutions and society.

Palabras clave : General Exams; Technological Model of Evaluation; Higher Education Evaluation; Educative Evaluation.

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