Compreendendo as concepções de avaliação de professores de física através da teoria dos construtos pessoais

Abstract

This work refers to an ethnographic case study conducted by two teachers of physics acting in 1st year high school classes of two Federal Institutions of Education located in the Metropolitan Region of Recife. Its goal was to identify the key aspects of the assessment considered by teachers of physics in the course of the evaluative process, examining the relationship between these aspects and what the Political-Pedagogic Project (PPP) recommends to the institutions in which the teachers work. Therefore, the methodology applied was organized as a Kelly’s Cycle of Experience, in five stages, which had the prospect of engaging the subjects in a process of interpretation and reinterpretation of designed and lived reality. The analyses were based on George Kelly’s Theory of Personal Constructs and on the evolution of ideas of Assessment defined by Guba and Lincoln as Generations of Evaluation. At the end of the research we realize that both the training courses and the political-educational projects exerted influence on the teachers’ evaluative practice and, because the courses of initial training had not appreciated systematic studies on assessment, their practices often reproduced the way in which they were evaluated as students. On the other hand, the guidelines about assessment contained in the institutions’ PPP and the teachers’ continuing education also offered subsidies so the teachers, each one in his particular way, submitted concepts of assessment and evaluative practices in an innovative view.