CRITÉRIOS DE AVALIAÇÃO DE ALUNOS: UMA CONSTRUÇÃO DOS DOCENTES DO CURSO TÉCNICO EM ENFERMAGEM DO CEPE

It is a study which made use of the exploratory method with a qualitative approach. It was held from August to December 2004 aiming to build up concepts of students’ evaluation criteria at Evangelic Educational Professional Centre (abbreviated CEPE in Portuguese). The attendants were 10 teachers, the principal, the coordinator and the educational advisor of CEPE, taking up 13 people. The task development was carried out during three workshops; at the first one, the concepts that the teaching staff considered necessary to be discussed throughout the task process were looked over. At the second and third workshops, the concepts discussed were: initiative, creativity, responsibility, interaction, observation, interpersonal relationship and evaluation followed by builtup and reassessment of the criteria concepts by the teaching staff. This study brought about reflection on what it is to evaluate in a pedagogic project organized by competences, the team exercise of building up concepts, and it has awaken in the attendants the desire and necessity to promote discussions on topics concerning the evaluation process.