The purpose of this study was to investigate elementary school students' perception of the learning evaluation. A qualitative research was used with analysis of descriptive case study. The selection of instruments and research techniques included semi-structured interviews, mind maps and completing sentences. A research was conducted in private school in Salvador, Bahia with participation of 11 subjects, including school managers and students aged between 6 to 10 years. The school has pedagogical humanist and trained managers, but students consider the assessment as a traditional tool of evaluation , stressing and emotional overload. Students do not perceive evaluation as a procedural mechanism that integrates their learning.
Evaluation; subjectivity; elementary school students