Abstract

GIL, Natália de Lacerda. School evaluation: a socio-historical contribution to the study of grade assignment. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.3, pp.923-941.  Epub Oct 26, 2020. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v19n3-2020-16.

Students evaluation and assessment is a daily practice in schools, although we have very little knowledge on the criteria mobilized by teachers in those processes and we do not know much concerning the history about that aspect of school culture. In this paper, I intend to contribute with the history of evaluation, mainly on a theoretical perspective, in dialogue with sociological studies, by focusing in a classificatory practice, presenting the scale of excellence that giving grades allows to formulate. Besides, in order to exemplify the potentiality of the examination of sources constituted from the school scripture, I analyse records of grades of a Catholic school located in Porto Alegre (Brazil) covering the period 1957-1964. In articulation with others historical studies, I explicit the search of precision and objectivity in the quantification of the school outcomes and the pedagogic debate concerning the subject.

Keywords : History of evaluation; School excellence; School culture.

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