STUDY ON THE TYPES OF ASSESSMENT IN THE LIGHT OF THE THEORY OF LEARNING STYLES (Atena Editora)

Abstract

This article aimed to verify whether students actually achieve the best performance in the evaluation methodology that matches their learning style. Therefore, this style of each one was identified after condensing the information obtained through the interview and the test with the students of the 3rd year of high school at Colégio Estadual Edivaldo Boaventura, located in Brejões-BA, 276 km away from Salvador. Thus, this work proposed to discuss about evaluation and learning styles, punctuating and relating the interferences of one area in the other. This investigation brings both the conception and suggestions of several evaluative methodologies, such as Online test, oral, written, games, among others. In addition to different conceptions of learning styles, such as Gregorc (1979), Kolb (1984), Felder-Silverman (1988) and Neil Fleming (1992). The discussions on evaluation presented here were based on Jussara Holffmann's theory of Mediating Evaluation and Professor Cipriano Luckesi's Learning Evaluation. We also sought to understand how, based on the understanding that students and teachers have of learning styles, as well as the mechanisms to use their innate abilities in favor of acquiring knowledge, it would be possible to use them in assessments, achieving with it performs better. To follow this path, a didactic sequence with the theme Acid Rain was applied. Even though it was carried out in the area of chemistry, the results obtained in this study can help educators in any discipline, both in Elementary and High School.