What is the principle behind the new external assessment model? | Opinion by André Freitas | July 20, 2024

The Portuguese Ministry of Education has announced significant changes to the external assessment model, with new tests for the 4th and 6th grade in Portuguese, Mathematics and one other subject every three years starting next school year. These new tests, which will be administered in digital format, will replace the old benchmarking tests that were previously given in the 2nd, 5th and 8th grades.

André Freitas, a researcher at CeiED – Interdisciplinary Research Center for Education and Development, reflects on the issue in the text – To evaluate better in education is to presuppose evaluation as a formative process, of communicative action – published in Portuguese on the OP.Edu blog, available in full here and open for discussion with readers.