The relation between teacher education and the assessment of learning: understandings of teaching and learning practices

• Grant number: 15/00327-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: December 01, 2015
• End date: November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Educational Teaching and Learning
• Principal Investigator: Sérgio Fabiano Annibal
• Grantee: Luiz Felipe Garcia de Senna
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL-ASSIS). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Assis. Assis , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This research integrates a wider research: "Mapping of the assessment of learning in the higher education", already funded by FAPESP (Proc. 2012/18230-3). This inquiry intends to follow and analyze the developing of evaluative practices inclassrooms of the undergratuated courses of Biology, History and Letter of UNESP in Assis, in order to contribute to a broader comprehension of the development in the evaluative practices of education and learning of the everyday of this courses. Thus, the general purpose of this research is to understand what has been produced in class about Teacher Education and Assessment of Learning. The research will occur by means of protocols of observation, that clings on the developing of education dimensions, learning and evaluation in daily life of the didactic relationships in the three undergraduate courses at UNESP Assis. So, the method in use will be the observation and recording of what was found, deepening in every dimension, in the sense of extend the understanding about the existing relations between evaluation practices and education and learning processes, beyond proceeding the analysis, according to the authors that discuss the teachers education and the learning evaluation. As result, seeks to contribute in the discussion about teachers education and their relation with the learning evaluation, add and extend new possibilities of analysis and understand of the data collected, as well contributing to the formation of a undergraduate student. (AU)