ANÁLISE PEDAGÓGICA DO EXAME DE ACESSO AO PROFMAT: REFLEXÕES SOBRE A AVALIAÇÃO E FORMAÇÃO DE PROFESSORES DE MATEMÁTICA
Teacher Training, Evaluation, Classical Test Theory, ENA 2019 and Mathematics
The present work aims to analyze descriptively, the responses of teachers/candidates submitted to the National Access Exam (ENA), Notice 2019 of Profmat, candidates at the Federal University of Western Pará, using the parameters of the Classical Theory of Tests, to conduct a reflection on the teacher education of the mathematics teacher and the evaluation process to which these teachers were submitted. The ENA 2019 contains items that address areas of Mathematics of Basic Education, justifying the importance of this work in revealing which important areas of Basic Education teachers perform below expected taking into account the evaluation process used. Methodologically, the work began with a literary selection in the perspective of solidifying the theoretical foundations. Among the works chosen are those of the authors Hoffman (2005), Luckesi (1990), Rabelo (2013) and Pasquali (2017). Sequentially, we proceeded to characterize the sample to be analyzed, tabulating the responses collected in the response cards to perform the data processing and thereby generate the analysis using the parameters of the Classical Theory of Tests. This study measured, at the regional level, the performance of the teachers/candidates who responded, expressed by the difficulty index, bisserial point correlation, graphic and pedagogical analysis of the items answered by this group, besides diagnosing whether the ENA has been able to satisfactorily assess the knowledge necessary to enter Profmat, through the discrimination index and the item's accuracy index. This treatment of the data allowed a reflection on some aspects to be taken into account in the initial and continued training of the mathematics teacher submitted to an evaluative process used by them in their teaching work. Revealing more strongly, the lack of collective ability of teachers in more laborious issues dealing with Equations of the 2nd degree and Probability, a worrying panorama, since even though this performance was a reflection of a deficient academic background, these teachers have daily contact with these contents, because they are responsible for teaching classes on these domains in basic education. This performance of teachers/candidates also demonstrated that the Exam as an evaluation process with a view to selecting and classifying them is not fulfilling its objective efficiently, a fact verified by the analyses in which more than half of the test items present some limitation by not properly discriminating the most proficient subjects in the domains of the others. The work is structured as follows: in the initial sections we approach the theoretical aspects on Evaluation, Teacher Training of Mathematics and Classical Theory of Tests. Then, the details of the methodology used, the subjects and locus of the research. In the following section, the main results obtained from the analysis and treatment given the teachers' answers are given. Finally, the final considerations.