Learning assessment: implications of narrative processes for fostering Proximal Development Zones
Learning Assessment, Proximal Development Zone, Basic Education.
This research proposal, entitled Learning Assessment: implications of narrative processes for the promotion of Proximal Development Zones, aims to investigate assessment processes practiced by an educational institution in Alagoas. We align our proposal to the ideas of the Russian psychologist Lev Vigotski (2007), especially his discussion on the relationship between learning and development, published from the concept of the zone of proximal development (ZPD). We consider this concept to be revolutionary for educational practices. We accuse, however, that there are still some gaps in the operationalization of the ZPD concept, which we intend to focus on during the research we propose here. We assume that one of the ways for learning assessment to be committed to
the relationship between learning and development is to make students advance between ZDPs and our purpose is to give visibility to the aspects necessary for an assessment instrument so that it promotes this advance . We opted for an intervention-type research, with conversation circles involving managers, teachers and students, due to the
commitment to social transformation that is so necessary in Brazilian educational scenarios. We intend that, at the end of the research, the participating educators have updated conceptions and procedures to assess learning and that these favor the human development of students.