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ResumoConhecendo as competências das crianças para autorregular as tarefas cotidianas e seguindo uma perspetiva sociocognitiva, procuramos compreender as percepções de educadores de infância sobre a promoção da autorregulação de tarefas. Pretendíamos também conhecer as práticas educativas que promovem oportunidades para as crianças autorregularem tarefas na educação pré-escolar. Realizamos um estudo de casos múltiplos com quatro contextos ao longo de seis meses, entrevistando as educadoras e observando as práticas com os seus grupos de crianças. Nas entrevistas, o aspecto mais destacado pelas educadoras refere que é preciso respeitar o desenvolvimento individual, sendo também necessário potenciá-lo. Nas observações sistemáticas, identificamos 739 indicadores de autorregulação que avaliamos em quatro dimensões: controle emocional e comportamental, controle cognitivo, atitudes prossociais e motivação para a autorregulação. Os resultados permitiram relacionar as dimensões de autorregulação com o discurso das educadoras e as oportunidades observadas nos contextos. As oportunidades que remetiam para o controle emocional e comportamental e o controle cognitivo foram as mais expressivas, no geral, e as de motivação para a autorregulação estiveram em maior número, mas só num contexto. A investigação permite refletir sobre a intencionalidade pedagógica num ambiente onde (quase) tudo é brincar, mas também sublinha a pertinência de desenvolver a autonomia das crianças na educação pré-escolar em graus de liberdade cada vez maiores. Nas implicações do estudo, refere-se que é preciso apoiar os educadores nas suas práticas para que criem oportunidades nos contextos que permitam às crianças deter o papel ativo na construção do conhecimento. Palavras-chaveAutorregulação -Educação pré-escolar -Estratégias pedagógicas -Educadores de infância. AbstractFollowing a socio-cognitive perspective, preschool children have competencies to selfregulate daily tasks. Considering this, we questioned preschool teachers' perceptions about the promotion of self-regulation in this context. We also observed educational practices, given children where were opportunities to self-regulate preschool tasks. This was a multiple case study with four schools. We interviewed teachers and observed practices along six months. In the interviews, the most quoted issue was the need to respect children's individual development, and also the importance of promoting it. In systematic observations, we identified 739 self-regulation indicators categorized in four dimensions: emotional and behavioral control, cognitive control, pro-social attitudes, as well as motivation to self-regulation. The results linked self-regulation dimensions to teachers' speech and the opportunities children were provided with. The most expressive dimensions were emotional and behavioral control and cognitive control. The motivation to self-regulation dimension was the most emphasized, but only at one school. The discussion reflects how preschool play should have a pedagogical intentionality...

As a communication and learning system, writing plays a central role in various contexts, and its teaching occurs during several years of schooling. However, writing assessment in Portuguese language lacks validated instruments. Thus, a study of accuracy and validation of the Written Composition Assessment Measure (MACE), a measure of observation built to evaluate the written composition of narrative texts in elementary education, was carried out. A total of 280 students from the 3 rd and 4 th grade of public schools of Lisbon participated in the research. The data collection of 560 narrative texts was performed in two moments, following the same procedure. The results showed a stability of the measurement over time and accuracy in its assessment by different judges. The content validity of MACE and its sensitivity to the level of writing competence were also demonstrated. Implications of the use of the instrument for the written composition evaluation practices were discussed.