Evaluation as a Field of Action in Education: Frameworks and Reconfigurations of Professional Intervention

Code:

DE238

Acronym:

ACAERRIF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Studies/Public Policies / Educational Sciences

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	Master Degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MCED	14	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	49	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The curricular unit aims to deepen theoretical frameworks on evaluation as a field of action in education, and problematize reconfigurations of professional intervention leading to the construction of knowledge about the evaluation as a professionalizing field.

It is expected that the UC constitutes a training space that contributes to think the evaluation as a professional field in education.

Learning outcomes and competences

It is intended that students build knowledge about evaluation and develop skills that enable them to discuss and reflect on:
(i) specificities of the various evaluation models and practices to which they point;
ii) multidimensionality of the field of evaluation; principles, characteristics and functions of evaluation; roles of evaluators and evaluated; evaluators' profiles, etc.

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable

Program

I. Multireferentiality of evaluation
1. Paradigms and generations of evaluation
    a) Neutrality, Objectivity, Subjectivity
2. Knowledge(s) and Expertise(s) in evaluation
    a) Experiential knowledge, informal knowledge, expertise, interdisciplinary knowledge
 

II. Multidimensionality and purposes of evaluation
1. Evaluation and training
2. Evaluation and audit
3. Assessment and consulting
4. Evaluation and research (knowledge production)
 

III. The evaluation as a field of intervention
1. Knowledge, skills and techniques of evaluators
2. Profiles of evaluators (characteristics of the evaluator: technical, collaborator, mediator, etc.)
3. Roles and functions of evaluators (Evaluator-Inspector (e.g. IGEC); Evaluator-Auditor; Evaluator-Consultant; Evaluator-Trainer; Evaluator-Policy Advisor; etc.)
4. Evaluation Contexts and Practices- Institutions; projects; programmes/policy measures;

 
Ethical issues of evaluation in education
1.Ethics and Evaluation - What meanings?
2. Evaluators and evaluated - what commitments? what protocols? what responsibilities?
3. Ethical procedures to consider in an evaluation process

Mandatory literature

Maria Pilar Colás Bravo; Evaluación de programas. ISBN: 84-88620-05-5
Egon G. Guba; Fourth generation evaluation. ISBN: 0-8039-3235-9
Ligia Gomes Elliot; Meta-avaliação: das abordagens às possibilidades de aplicação, Revista Ensaio: Avaliação e Políticas Públicas em Educação, v. 19, n. 73, p. 941-964, 2011
A. L. da Silva & A. M. Gomes; Avaliação educacional: concepções e embates teóricos, Estudos Em Avaliação Educacional, 29(71), 350–384. https://doi.org/10.18222/eae.v29i71.5048, 2021
Carla Figueiredo, Carlinda Leite & Preciosa Fernandes; Uma tipologia para a compreensão da avaliação de escolas, Revista Brasileira de Educação, 23, 25p. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1413-24782018230018, 2018
José Dias Sobrinho; Avaliação: Técnica E Ética., Avaliação: Revista Da Avaliação Da Educação Superior, 6(3). , 2001
U. Schiefer et. al; Método Aplicado de Planeamento e Avaliação: Manual de Planeamento e Avaliação de Projetos., Cascais: Principia, 2006
Cátia Pereira & Geraldo Moreira; As vicissitudes da prática avaliativa e do uso do resultado na perspectiva histórica e epistemológica, Instrumento: Rev. Est. e Pesq. em Educação, v. 23, n. 1, p. 63-79, 2021
Beth Marcuschi & Lívia Suassuna (orgs.); Avaliação em língua portuguesa contribuições para a prática pedagógica, Autêntica , 2006
Domingos Fernandes; Avaliação de programas e projetos educacionais: das questões teóricas às questões das práticas, In D. Fernandes (Org.), Avaliação em educação: Olhares sobre uma prática social incontornável, pp. 185-208. Pinhais, PR: Editora Melo., 2011
Regilson Maciel Borges & José Carlos Rothen; Abordagens de avaliação educacional: a constituição do campo teórico no cenário internacional, Revista Eletrônica de Educação, v. 13, n. 2, p. 749-768, 2019
Carlinda Leite, Lurdes Rodrigues & Preciosa Fernandes; A auto-avaliação das escolas e a melhorias da qualidade da educação: Um olhar reflexivo a partir de uma situação., Revista de Estudos Curriculares, 4(1), 21-45., 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation
Classroom discussion
Group work
Research

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho escrito	60,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	62,00
Frequência das aulas	45,00
Trabalho de investigação	30,00
Trabalho escrito	25,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The student obtains the frequency in the curricular unit if he/she attends at least two thirds (2/3) of the classes foreseen.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification results from the calculation between the two components: - Participation in activities developed in class context - 40% - An individual written work on being an evaluation professional in the field of education, which profiles, possibilities and challenges, developed and based on the content of the UC (60%)

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who, by law, are excused from class attendance and, therefore, cannot complete the 'participation' component of the UC assessment, should contact the teachers of the curricular unit during the first 2 weeks of the semester in order to define a specific assessment protocol.

Classification improvement

The improvement of the final classification will be carried out through individual written work.

Observations