The assessment of learning: from the plurality of statements to the duality of concepts - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v36i1.21018

Authors

  • Paulo Marinho Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação Author
  • Preciosa Fernandes Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação Author
  • Carlinda Leite Faculdade de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v36i1.21018

Keywords:

assessment of learning, concepts on learning assessment, conceptional evaluative duality

Abstract

Teachers’ concepts on the learning assessment of their pupils are characterized. Data were collected in two Portuguese schools, featuring very different results in national exams, through half-structured interviews and a focus group of teachers whose discourses were analyzed by content analysis technique. Analysis showed that teachers´ discourse on learning assessment may be placed within a framework of concepts that may be associated with evaluation meanings such as ‘measure’ and ‘negotiation and construction’ (GUBA; LINCOLN, 1989). When relationships with Méndez’s (2002) typology on learning assessment are established, teachers´ discourses from the two schools provide characteristics which permit the framing of their perceptions within the duality of the concepts ‘alternative assessment’ and ‘traditional assessment’.

 

 

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Published

2014-02-20

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Teaching and Learning

How to Cite

Marinho, P., Fernandes, P., & Leite, C. (2014). The assessment of learning: from the plurality of statements to the duality of concepts - doi: 10.4025/actascieduc.v36i1.21018. Acta Scientiarum. Education, 36(1), 151-162. https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v36i1.21018

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