Large-scale educational assessments: performativity and perversion of educational experience

Authors

  • Jarbas Dametto Universidade de Passo Fundo
  • Rosimar Serena Siqueira Esquinsani Universidade de Passo Fundo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644413742

Keywords:

Educational assessment, Performativity, Pedagogical practices.

Abstract

This text proposes a critical debate about large-scale educational assessments and their implications by the pedagogical experience everyday. Through theoretical review and a compilation of recent studies on the topic, analyses the issue, conceiving the assessment standardized external as an instrument whose means and results feed ideal performer, taking the performance as a principle of typical today, the present paper legitimacy by competition and productivist perspective extracted from private. Are also some by-products of evaluations, such as the emergence of educational accountability rankings, media ownership of results, and the implications of such phenomena. Finally, explore some of the effects of quantification and classification geared to education pointing losses that a look based on performativity can lead to educational practice.

Author Biographies

Jarbas Dametto, Universidade de Passo Fundo

Psicólogo, mestre e doutorando em Educação pela Universidade de Passo Fundo. Professor da Faculdade de Educação (FAED - UPF).

Rosimar Serena Siqueira Esquinsani, Universidade de Passo Fundo

Licenciada em História, Doutora em Educação. Professora da Faculdade de Educação da Universidade de Passo Fundo.

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Published

2015-09-24

How to Cite

Dametto, J., & Esquinsani, R. S. S. (2015). Large-scale educational assessments: performativity and perversion of educational experience. Education, 40(3), 619–630. https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644413742

Issue

educação, v. 40, n. 3 set./dez. 2015

Section

Continuous Demand

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