O Saerjinho como avaliação formativa: estudo de caso de uma escola pública estadual da Regional Médio Paraíba/RJ

Abstract

The case study presented here focuses on the results of appropriation of bimonthly external evaluation – Saerjinho – promoted by the Secretary of Education from Rio de Janeiro in a school from the Regional Middle Paraíba in the state of Rio de Janeiro (School X). The Saerjinho is a teaching and learning evaluation system, with a diagnostic and formative aspect, which was applied to students on 5th, 6th, and 9th grades at elementary school and three high school series. This instrument aims to monitor more closely the student‟s performance, detecting faster and with more precision learning problems. It was assumed as an initial hypothesis that teachers use this instrument only in a summative way, without proposing from its results, interventions in pedagogical practice focused on student learning. The aims of this study were: a) report the Saerjinho as a case study within the Middle Paraíba Regional and School X; b) analyze the uses made of this evaluation instrument by Portuguese teachers of School X; and c) propose actions to accompany and improve the appropriation of its results to improve learning and hence the performance of the students of this school. The methodology used was qualitative research, based on focal group and semi-structured interviews. First, It were developed through focal group and in light of Weber's theory, two ideal types of different uses of Saerjinho and its results: one that devaluate the instrument, in which the results are only converted to rates; and another that overestimates it, with teaching practices developed almost exclusively to Saerjinho. None of them contemplates the use of Saerjinho as external evaluation of educational character. Later on, the concern of this research became the practice of the School X teacher‟s based on the two ideal types of elaborate Saerjinho use. It was found that the Portuguese teachers from School X approach the ideal type of devaluation of the instrument, using it only as a summative assessment tool. Regarding this findings, it was proposed a training model way of use the results of Saerjinho and an interventional plan of action in order to contribute to the school management team. In this training model, teachers and administrators value the Saerjinho as assessment tool in continuous action-reflection-action proposed by Hoffmann (2003), since this assessment allows changes to be proposed in the pedagogical practice even during the school year, adjusting the educational performance to the currently teaching practices. In addition to the proposals for actions to help School X, a questionnaire to assist the identification of the ideal types used in other school units was suggested.