Avaliação do conhecimento explícito da língua: verbos de comando de provas do Ensino Básico = Pruebas de educación básica para evaluar el conocimiento explícito de la lengua: análisis compositivo y curricular

Abstract

This article presents a research on the tests evaluating grammatical knowledge in Portuguese as a mother tongue applied by teachers to students from three years of schooling (7th, 8th, and 9th grades) to identify the assessed contents and grammatical processes. Once the corpus was established, and the tasks requested from the students were analyzed, the results show three observations: (i) the operations involved in the execution of the task requested by the command verb are restricted to a closed set of verbs with a high frequency of use such as classifying, indicating and identifying; (ii) the items that enunciate the tasks (command verbs and assessed content) present, over the three years (7th, 8th, 9th), a clear standardization; (iii) the assessment items reveal a clear mimicry of the curricular goals of the Portuguese subject. The results obtained allow the conclusion that, in the development of explicit knowledge of the language (grammar), there is an isomorphism between the goals, the external assessment tests and the tests used by teachers in the use of learning assessment items, which value a very limited set of elementary operations