A avaliação formativa na licenciatura de ciências biológicas da universidade tecnológica federal do Paraná (UTFPR) - câmpus de Ponta Grossa

Abstract

Knowledge creation on researchers about the assessment practice in the formation of higher education professors guides the development of skills and abilities that require theoretical and practical preparation. Students' struggle in completing their education at a Higher Education Institution, among other factors, is related to the inability to cognitively advance in certain subjects that turns out in failure and even drop out from the course. Therefore, this study arose from the necessity and interest to know the assessment methods, on the perspective of tests and in students and professors perception at a Federal University. It aimed to analyze the learning assessment process in the pedagogical practice of higher education professors and its relationship with the perspective of assessments. The assessment concept was analyzed in its general aspects and, specifically, in its formative elaboration. In this regard, legal institutional documents and educational legislation were analyzed, along with pedagogical practice developed by professors and students' reports on evaluations from the perspective of formative assessment. As a research instrument, questionnaires were used in an online format (FORMs). Questionnaires were applied to students in the fourth and fifth periods on the Degree in Biological Sciences and to professors who teach at this course. The theoretical framework was based on the following authors: Cunha (2007), Cunha; Souza (2010), Sampaio (2011), Fernandes (2005, 2009, 2011, 2018, and 2019), among others. The study on this topic can affirm that with the evaluation laws that are established, and with the data collected and analyzed, the assessments, in the educational perspective, with its methodologies and contents, contributes to the choices of alternatives that help in the learning process realization, in such a way that the student can overcome difficulties and complete their education.