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The purpose of this research is to discuss concepts and contexts in which evaluation is embedded and its contributions to the school environment. The essay is a literature review based on materials and themes made available for reading, study, and discussion in the classroom. The methodological process of this article arises as the final work of the discipline Avaliação como Processo Educativo of Pós-Graduação Stricto Sensu -- Mestrado Profissional em Educação e Novas Tecnologias do Centro Universitário Internacional --UNINTER. In this sense, and through this bibliographic review, education's concept and some Brazilian educational trajectory elements are presented, with emphasis on the changes underway. This Brazilian education panorama is the background for the description of evaluation as a learning's mediating process. It is emphasized that the evaluations should not have a verification feature, but should be focused on the diagnostic and formative functions, enabling diagnosis of the student's reality to foster the teaching and learning process, after all, this should be one of the evaluation's goals. The richness of this literature review allowed high pedagogical value reflections, such as the fundamental importance of new postures and breaking paradigms for cultural changes, in people's cosmovision related to evaluation, both of students and teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the relevance of comics books to the classroom context, especially in Science teaching. Research points to the growing insertion of comic as a didactic resource; thus, we present a proposal for a comic book about the “Food Chain” content, organized sequentially in the light of the Meaningful Learning Theory (MLT). Gradually, the comics have been gaining space and have consolidated in the formal teaching environment. Their use has the potential to facilitate the construction of scientific concepts, since in the Natural Sciences, many subjects are complex and require greater cognitive abstraction. In addition, the language used in the comics favors enjoyable learning, because it is understood as a motivational resource. The motivational factor is elementary for any learning process, and in the school environment, it is essential. It is expected that the discussions presented in this work collaborate for the expansion of pedagogical strategies in Science teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is a synthesis a final paper, linked to the scientific initiation, carried out in the pedagogy course. The intention of this article is to demonstrate the students' approach with the Sequential Art / Comics, in the sense to produce a significant learning of the Portuguese language content. The experience aimed to analyze the language of Sequential Art / Comics in Portuguese classes, providing the training of teachers to use this teaching tool in the school environment. Methodologically, we made use of a qualitative research, using the case study and participant observation. Thus, it was possible to infer about the language aspects of Sequential Art / Comics used in elementary school by teachers, in order to promote its use in the classroom. We proposed strategies for using the multiple languages found in Sequential Art. As a result, we could observe that there are flaws in the design and use of different resources in the classroom that arouse the interest of students; we observed, as well, that they can be stimulated through materials that do not require high investments, since they are available to everyone. We conclude that the encouragement to learn the language and its different functions — such as interpretation, reading habits and textual understanding —, are factors that need to be addressed more by teachers, from their professional training to their teaching practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]