Políticas educacionais, avaliação e desempenho escolar: a rede municipal de educação de Goiânia

Abstract

The reforms in the Brazilian Educational System that started in 1990 s culminated in various changes and educational concepts with the monitoring of school performances through a large-scale evaluation system. In such a way that the evaluation results measured by IDEB (Basic Education Development Index), since its implementation, has been showing a relative growth in every stage of education, however it still shows low results in school development. Since this has been observed, the aim of this study has been to find explanations and a more grounded comprehension about the failure of the public schools in Brazil, concerning the educational outcome of the pupil, having as reference a database from a municipal system of teaching. This study was based on the analysis of official documents related to education policies for the school and on field research in two municipal schools in the city of Goiânia, where observations of the routine of these schools took place as well as interviews with head teachers, deputy head teachers and teachers. The results confirm the hypothesis that one of the strongest explanations for the low pupil s performance in the standard examinations is precisely in the fact that the education policies as based on the results, hold the teachers accountable for the unsatisfactory pupil s performance, and release them from the internal factors that interfere in the pupil s learning. It also confirms some authors position that in opposition to those policies, recommend not to lose from sight the organisational conditions, the curriculum, the pedagogical practices, teaching methods and so on, when analysing the success or failure conditions, which are real and concrete conditions that produce the learning and development of the pupils.