Educational Assessment

Recommended Prerequisites

None.

 

Teaching Methods

The theoretical component includes a lecture’s approach based on audiovisual means and periods for discussion of themes in which activity, participation and collaboration of students is essential. The practical component implies the development of practical work for group reflection on the themes approached in classes by students.

Learning Outcomes

This curricular unit is aimed to develop a set of competences in the field of assessment, including an understanding of different paradigms, methods and fields of educational assessment as well as the onstruction of assessment benchmarks.

 

Students should be able to:

• understand different generations and paradigms of assessment;

• understand components and methods of assessment;

• analyze the different fields of educational assessment;

• construct benchmarks of schools’ assessment.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Educational assessment: background and current situation.

1.1. The generations of assessment; measure, congruence, judgment and negotiation.

1.2. The paradigms of assessment, objectivist, subjectivist and critical paradigms.

1.3. Debate between paradigms.

1.4. The challenges of assessment.

2. Components and methods of assessment.

2.1. The terms of referent, referred, framework and referentialization.

2.2. Assessment according to functionality and timing.

2.3. Assessment according to normotype.

2.4. Assessment according to the agents.

3. Fields / objects of educational assessment.

3.1. Evaluation of educational administrations.

3.2. Evaluation of schools.

3.3. Assessment of professional performance of teachers.

3.4. Assessment of teaching-learning processes.

Head Lecturer(s)

Carlos Manuel Folgado Barreira

Assessment Methods

Continuous evaluation
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

Alaíz, V., Góis, E., & Gonçalves, C. (2003). Auto-avaliação de escolas. Porto: Edições Asa.

Alves, M. P. (2004). Currículo e avaliação: Uma perspectiva integrada. Porto: Porto Editora.

Barreira, C., & Boavida, J. (Orgs.). (2006). Avaliação educacional: Novas formas de ensinar e aprender. Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia, 40(3), 95-133.

Barreira, C., Bidarra, G., & Vaz-Rebelo, M. P. (2011). Avaliação externa de escolas: Do quadro de referência aos resultados e tendências de um processo em curso. Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia, Homenagem ao Professor Doutor João José Matos Boavida, Extra-Série, 81-94.

Casanova, M. A. (2007). Manual de evaluación educativa. Madrid: Editorial La Muralla.

Hadji, C. (1994). Avaliação, regras do jogo. Porto: Porto Editora.

Pinto, J., & Santos, L. (2006). Modelos de avaliação das aprendizagens. Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.