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: necessidade ou imperativo legal?

Abstract

Given the rapid transformation of society, school organizations are in a continuous adaptation process, which requires them more effectiveness and efficiency of action in order to meet the needs and expectations of its stakeholders, who are increasingly demanding. Therefore, they turn to evaluation, namely of teachers, as a necessary tool to achieve the quality of its processes and procedures, as a way to continuously improve and achieve excellency. As evaluation triggers a process of critical and reflective thinking, it emerges as an imperative strategy to improve the performance and effectiveness of teachers and consequently of school organization. However, its implementation has generated great tension between certain interveners, which puts into question the essence, the credibility as well as the effectiveness of the process. With this research, under the Masters of Educational Sciences - Major in Educational Supervision and Teacher's Assessment, using the methodology of case study, we sought to analyse and compare the different perceptions on the process of evaluating teacher's performance, in public and private schools, located in the region of Entre Douro e Vouga. After data analise, we tried to identify possible explanatory causes of the divergence of each participant position over the performance appraisal process as well as enumerate possible areas of intervention likely to change this reality. In short, as a result of this investigation, it was found that the participants recognize the importance and necessity, beyond the legal requirement, of teacher's performance assessment. However, the organizational culture inherent to the public organization, triggers a process of rejection of summative assessment, by the teachers, as it leads to a distorted picture of them and of school organization. Thus, as they play such an important role in our society, it is urgent to unleash change!

Date of Award	23 Jul 2014
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Maria do Céu Roldão (Supervisor) & Vitor Alaiz (Supervisor)