Representações sociais de alunos da educação de jovens e adultos sobre avaliação

Abstract

This research investigates the social representations of students from EJA (Young adults and Adults Teaching) on assessment.It aims at verifying if these students have social representations of the evaluation, identifying the representations, and determining whether these are reflected in the behavior of students in evaluation periods.In order to accomplish it, we used descriptive and exploratory methods.Students of the fourth grade from the first segment of EJA participated in the study -corresponding to the fifth year of elementary school -and also the teacher of Portuguese and Mathematics of the same class in a public school in Distrito Federal.The research is based on a theoretical framework that embraces the Social Representation Theory and evaluation.In the analysis of collected data it was possible to see that the same group of students has social representations about assessment, and it was possible to identify them around the functions of evaluation and its interference in the school performance.In addition, it was realized that their behavior before the evaluation may vary according to the social representations they have that are on it.