Avaliação: processo mediador de aprendizagem

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to discuss concepts and contexts in which evaluation is embedded and its contributions to the school environment. The essay is a literature review based on materials and themes made available for reading, study, and discussion in the classroom. The methodological process of this article arises as the final work of the discipline Avaliação como Processo Educativo of Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu — Mestrado Profissional em Educação e Novas Tecnologias do Centro Universitário Internacional —UNINTER. In this sense, and through this bibliographic review, education’s concept and some Brazilian educational trajectory elements are presented, with emphasis on the changes underway. This Brazilian education panorama is the background for the description of evaluation as a learning's mediating process. It is emphasized that the evaluations should not have a verification feature, but should be focused on the diagnostic and formative functions, enabling diagnosis of the student's reality to foster the teaching and learning process, after all, this should be one of the evaluation’s goals. The richness of this literature review allowed high pedagogical value reflections, such as the fundamental importance of new postures and breaking paradigms for cultural changes, in people's cosmovision related to evaluation, both of students and teachers.