Evaluation in Education and Training

Code:

E414

Acronym:

AEF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Adult Education

Instance: 2025/2026 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	41	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Portuguese and english

Objectives

• To understand key concepts of evaluation


• To explore the  multiple functions and purposes of evaluation


• To gain awareness on diverse modalities and perspectives about evaluation


• To analyze the pertinence of different evaluation models in relation to the object being evaluated


• To discuss the implications and consequences of mobilizing evaluation processes of a diverse nature


• To acquire evaluation skills

Learning outcomes and competences

• To identify and examine the complexity inherent to the fundamental concepts of evaluation


• To produce texts that express a critical reflection regarding concepts and perspectives on evaluation


• To mobilize relevant and scientifically grounded arguments for evaluation in situations of debate


• To apply strategies of self-evaluation, improvement and development


• To proceed to the evaluation of specific situations, establishing criteria, methods, procedures and instruments


• To design evlaution proposals adjusted to concrete contexts and institutions

Working method

Presencial

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

As the work is based on the joint construction of knowledge on theUC's topics, being present is lessons is essential and is also an evaluation parameter.

Program

1. What is meant by evaluation

2. Evolution of evaluation models

3. The problem of evaluation: Understanding the contexts

4. Evaluation: Purposes and functions

5. Modalities and perspectives about evaluation

6. Implications and consequences of evaluations

Mandatory literature

Carvalho, Cindy & Portugal, Maria Gabriela; O papel da avaliação na melhoria das práticas: Contributos para um projeto de investigação na área da educação de infância, Educação, Sociedade e Culturas 47, 95-104, 2016
Correia, José Alberto, Fidalgo, Fernando & Rocha Fidalgo, Nora; A avaliação como trabalho e o trabalho de avaliação, Educação, Sociedade e Culturas, 33, 37-50., 2011
Justino, David & Almeida, Sílvia de; Inspecionar e avaliar: Origens da regulação coerciva da educação em Portugal, Educação, Sociedade e Culturas 47, 31-52, 2016
Figari, Gérard (1996); Avaliar: que referencial? (pp. 47-52), Porto. Porto Editora, 1996
Vial, Michel ; Organizar a participação dos formandos na avaliação da sua formação – duas entradas possíveis: as tarefas e os critérios do projecto de formação. In Avaliação com sentido(s): Contributos e questionamentos (pp. 169-182), Autor, 2008
Veloso, Luísa, Abrantes, Pedro e Craveiro, Daniela ; A avaliação externa de escolas como processo social. Educação, Sociedade e Culturas, 33, 69-88, 2011
Sousa, Anabela & Terrasêca, Maria Manuela ; Processos de autoavaliação de escolas ou avaliação interna do sistema? Arquivos Analíticos de Políticas Educativas, 23(115). http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v23.2085, 2015
Valverde, Camilo José Lopes ; Aproximação histórica à problemática da avaliação de programas. In A avaliação de programas de formação profissional contínua. Ensaio para a compreensão das concepções orientadoras: Reflexões a partir de um estudo de caso (17-28), Autor, 1998
Dias Sobrinho, José. ; Avaliação Educativa: Produção de Sentidos com Valor de Formação, Avaliação (Campinas), 13, 193-207., 2008

Complementary Bibliography

Berger, Guy & Terrasêca, Manuela ; Políticas e práticas de avaliação: algumas reflexões, Educação, Sociedade e Culturas, 33, 7-16., 2011
Barbier, Jean-Marie ; O processo de avaliação. In A avaliação em formação (pp.59-78), Edições Afrontamento, 1990
Ardoino, Jacques, & Berger, Guy; L’évaluation comme interprétation. Pour, 107, Junho, Julho, Agosto, pp. 120-127. [Tradução: Manuela Terrasêca], 1986
MacBeath, J.; Self-evaluation, review, audit, self-assessment and self-inspection. In School inspection and self-evaluation. (pp. 56-59; 62-69), Nova Iorque: Routledge., 2006
Bonniol, Jean-Jacques & Vial, Michel; A avaliação, sistema de regulações. In Os modelos de avaliação. Textos Fundamentais (pp. 299-323), Porto Alegre: Artmed , 2001
Bolívar, A. ; La Autoevaluación En La Construcción De Capacidades De Mejora De La Escuela Como Comunidad De Aprendizaje Profesional. , Revista Portuguesa De Investigação Educacional, nº. 14, pp. 9-40, Https://Doi.Org/10.34632/Investigacaoeducacional.2014.33, 2014

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact Activities

Individual and team work

Analysis of texts

Structuring of reading sheet

Construction of reading sheet on a specific text

Oral presentation of the reading sheet

Design of evaluation project

Research and Reporting

Exhibition

Debate

Follow-up

Tutorial guidance

Assessment of learning


Autonomous work

Research on educational / training topics

Bibliographic research

Reading and analysis of texts

Elaboration of works

Organization of presentations of works

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	20,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	10,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	20,00
Estudo autónomo	53,00
Frequência das aulas	49,00
Trabalho de investigação	10,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

75% of attendance of the classes are required to be eligible for evaluation.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final mark will take into account the students' involvement in the tasks distributed in the sessions. The classification of this involvement will be calculated from a maximum weighting of 20% on an entire scale from 0 to 20.

The project on Evaluation (in group) assessed from the specified characteristics will have a 40% weighting on an entire scale of 0-20.

The individual work or a written exam will have a 40% weighting on an entire scale from 0 to 20. The final mark will result from the simple average of the three components.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n/a

Internship work/project

n/a

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Students who are legally allowed not to attend the classes must do a written exam and produce a report on specific topics of the programme according to the orientations of the professor.

Classification improvement

Students who want to improve their mark will have to do a written exam weighting 100%.