Práticas avaliativas mediatizadas por tecnologias digitais: educação para o trabalho em contexto de promoção da cidadania

Abstract

This dissertation deals with assessment practices mediated by information and communication digital technologies in a training course aimed at work in a citizenship promoting context. It investigates, through qualitative research, the evaluation, on the part of students, of assessment practices experienced during a course in an online virtual learning environment. This study aimed to: identify particular features of the educational assessment conception assigned by students to the assessment practices experienced in the 5th class of the course Conquest of LGBT Citizenship; investigate peculiar aspects assigned by students to the use of information and communication digital technologies in the assessment practices of this course; map an information set which provides for a critical analysis taking into account consistency between the assessment practices experienced by students and the training goals of this course. This study s methodology involved documentary analysis, application of questionnaires to students, and the conduct of interviews with the coordinators responsible for the course. One concludes that most of respondents thought they have gone through experiences related to educational assessment as emancipation during the course. Besides, one may say that there was consistency between the assessment practices experienced and the training goals of the course