This work proposes the discussion of alternative forms to the exams and the texts in school evaluation. Thus, two experiences were presented, performed with students from the Technical Course of Sanitary Vigilance and Environmental Health, the Joaquim Venâncio Polytechnic School of Health, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz unit, which sought to break with the traditional model of evaluation, marked by the verticalized relationship between teacher and pupil in the teaching-learning process. It is argued that, depending on the way it is conducted, the evaluation can be an authoritarian, punitive and stigmatizing instrument and, in this sense, it is up to the professionals from the education area a reflection on its ideological and political positioning, so as to perceive if its teaching practice would be contributing to the maintenance of social unequalness.
evaluation; teaching-learning; professional education; worker's health
