Questions, Answers and Pleas in Portuguese Exams During Seven Decades

Abstract

Keeping in mind the central part national exams have been performing in the design and implementation of learning and curricula, the analysis of the evolution of national exams shows the dynamic implications between the exams and the curricula, in the realm of the curricular reforms that happened in Portugal.As it is never too much to highlight, it is not possible to reflect on the exams focusing exclusively around the students and the technical concern of measuring their performance without keeping in mind the factors in play regarding learning, such as curriculum, Portuguese cultural characteristics, the organization of the School Community, and the educational legislation driven by several national and international historical factors.