Social Representations and Focus Group: a study on the assessment of learning in distance education.

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https://doi.org/10.18675/1981-8106.vol23.n43.p145-168
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This article derives partially from a theoretical-methodological research, carried out with the support of Social Representations Theory. It focuses specifically on discussions and reflections on learning assessment in distance education. The data were collected from focus groups, gathered from graduating students of Pedagogy of two poles of an Educational Institution, Cariacica and Colatina poles, in the State of Espírito Santo. The objective was to identify the social representations which the graduating students of Pedagogy in distance education built about the assessment of learning. The data analysis identified three key words: contradictions, rituals and perceptions which were translated into three unities of meaning. These unities are associated with the social representations, built by those students. From their experiences, speeches, pictures and viewpoints, they organized and transformed their representations into feelings which denote that assessment is primordial and necessary for learning in the course; yet at the same time, they met contradictions, between what is taught in theory, and what is experienced in practice, what leads them to fight for a more humane evaluation process.
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  1. Vania Maria de Oliveira Vieira, Universidade de Uberaba
    Doutora em Psicologia da Educação pela PUC\SP. Professora e Coordenadora do Programa de Mestrado em Educação da Universidade de Uberaba (UNIUBE). Rua Vigário Silva 745 Apto 1103, Bom Retiro, Uberaba, MG. CEP 38022190
  2. Marilene Ribeiro Resende, Universidade de Uberaba
    Doutora em Educação Matemática pela PUC\SP. Professora e Vice Coordenadora do Programa de Mestrado em Educação da Universidade de Uberaba (UNIUBE). Av. Leopoldino de Oliveira 4190 Apto 1501. Centro. Uberaba. MG. CEP: 38010000
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2013-07-29
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Vol. 23 No. 43 (2013)
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Social Representations and Focus Group: a study on the assessment of learning in distance education. Educação: Teoria e Prática, v. 23, n. 43, p. 145–168, 29 Jul.2013.