Reprovação e algumas reflexões sobre as faces da avaliação: um estudo de caso no IFSUL-Campus Pelotas

Abstract

The theme failure has been subject of many studies due to its importance in the scholar context. In particular in the institution where I work, this theme has been very prominent among the teachers and the management team due to the high failure rate that occurs in the initial series of integrated technical courses. Thus, this work aims to seek a better understanding of the reasons for the high failure rate in the first semester of integrated technical courses, focusing on evaluation. The research has a qualitative approach and was carried out through documentary research and semistructured interview, where the answers are analyzed by Textual Analysis Discourse (MoraeseGaliazzi, 2006), which made it possible to highlight three categories: "Characterization of the studied groups", "Relation with the School and with knowing/knowledge" and "Relation with the evaluation". With the analysis of these categories associated to literature review and to studies and theories of evaluation, it was possible to understand that there is no single reason for failure, but rather a set of factors, associated or not, contributing to this situation. Amongst them I highlight the evaluation that is often used only as classification and punishment, differentiating of its real goal which is training.