Aprendizagem da avaliação e avaliação para aprendizagem: narrativas de egressos/as-professores/as licenciados/as em Biologia

Abstract

This study aims to understand, through the narratives of graduate teachers from a Biology teacher education program, which learnings they re-signify in order to assess. Thus, it articulates teacher education and professional practice in order to understand how knowledge about Assessment, constructed during training processes, is reaffirmed by teachers as contributing to their assessment practices. For the research context, the Biology Teacher Education Program at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB) was considered, whose curriculum includes the mandatory course “Assessment and Education”. To produce the research data, Narrative Research was employed, with narrative interviews conducted with graduate teachers from the Biology teacher education program. As an analytical procedure, the study used the MeaningCores(NúcleosdeSignificação) approach, based on theworkof Wanda Aguiar and Sérgio Ozella (2006, 2013), in order to apprehend and interpret the meanings of assessment learnings that were re-signified. The theoretical framework draws on Maurice Tardif (2010) and Britt-Mari Barth (1993), who characterize teacher knowledge as originating from multiple sources but validated through experiential knowledge. Based on Wagner Valente and Rita Hofstetter (2017), we situate “knowing how to assess” as a form of “knowledge for teaching,” highlighting its pedagogical dimension in teacher education, particularly in teacher training programs. This perspective is related to the possibility of learning assessment, as proposed by Cipriano Luckesi. The results of the research indicate that graduate teachers re signified learning experiences from their training in order to assess for learning. In doing so, they re-signified both the learnings they considered positive—particularly the diversification of assessment instruments—and those they criticized, such as relying exclusively on tests and not enabling student participation in the assessment process. We conclude that these re-signified learnings are related to an epistemology of practice. For this reason, participants emphasized that they learned to assess with teachers who enabled experiences of assessment focused on the construction of learning. The meanings produced from the narratives of the graduate teachers reaffirm learning of and for assessment as necessary knowledge in teacher education. However, the central meaning that emerges is that assessment learning is [re]constructed within assessment practices according to the contexts of professional practice.