Assessment in the Early Years: Institutional Prescriptions and Teachers' Conceptions and Practices in Schools of Januária-MG
Keywords: Early Years of Elementary Education; Educational Assessment; Learning Assessment; Assessment Policies; Evaluative Conceptions and Practices
This thesis project is linked to the research line "Teaching Profession, Curriculum, and Evaluation" of the Graduate Program in Education at the School of Education, University of Brasília (PPGE/FE/UnB). The study is aligned with the works conducted by the Study and Research Group on Teaching Work, Didactics, and Pedagogical Work (PRODOCÊNCIA). It concerns the assessment of learning in the formal, institutionalized educational context, as it is one of the structuring elements of the pedagogical work of schools and classrooms. The overall objective is to analyze the relationships between what is proposed in official documents and the conceptions and practices of elementary school teachers regarding learning assessment in schools of Januária - MG. Based on the overall objective, the following specific objectives are outlined: to understand the theoretical and practical conceptions presented in official documents concerning learning assessment, issued by the State Secretariat of Education – MG; to understand the conceptions and practices of learning assessment by elementary school teachers; to understand the challenges and possibilities of adopting evaluative practices for learning, based on institutional proposals and teachers' conceptions; to identify how learning assessment is portrayed in the schools' PPP. The investigation is characterized by a qualitative approach within a critical-dialectical perspective. Data collection techniques will include questionnaires for elementary school teachers and documentary research. To read, organize the data, and identify the categories of analysis, the Content Analysis technique (Bardin, 2020) will be adopted.