Large-Scale Assessment Classroom and School: a Necessary Dialogue

Abstract

The article presents and discusses the theoretical debate about the approaches and distancing of the largescale and assessment of learning. It’s assumed that the assessment focused on the educational processes must consider the different perspectives that each one of these evaluative dimensions involves. The text highlights the importance of large-scale assessment as a possibility of educational diagnosis and orientation of public policies, and also indicates that the evaluation of learning in the context of the classroom can present deeper and more consistent analyzes for pedagogical practices. However, the authors, indicating the different logics that each one of these evaluations must involve affirm the importance to consider methodologies, differentiated procedures in classroom and not a repetition of large-scale assessment, like it usually happens in our schools. From a historical perspective of the educational assessment models, the text debates the evaluative dimensions and discusses the importance of the school to promote a dialogue among them and not to reduce the learning assessment to the usage of the large-scale assessment procedures and instruments.