An instrument for the assessment of learning in online education from the content analysis

From the beginning, the online education became evident the need for new ways of performing the process of teaching and learning, as in the special case of its evaluation, according to Rocha [1] "suffer interference from their singularities". [2], [3], [4] and [5] also express concern with this peculiarity of online assessment. [6] motivated the creation of tools able to meet increasingly, this demand. With that emerge up new strategies, with the inclusion of new instruments to absorb the evaluation process referred to in this context. Among them, there is the content analysis technique created by [7], which provides an interpretation of quantitative and qualitative interfaces (for example a forum) interactions arising by students through computer tools that incorporate these techniques. The purpose of this article was to conduct a literature review on the relationship between the use of context analysis to evaluation in online education, followed by the application of a real forum in Tropes software in order to prove or disprove the help of these instruments in the evaluation in online education.