SAETHE: um estudo de caso sobre a implementação da avaliação externa da Educação Infantil de Teresina

Abstract

This dissertation was developed within the scope of the Professional Master's in Education Management and Evaluation (PPGP) from the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case studied discussed the external evaluation of Teresina Early Childhood Education, within the scope of the Teresina Educational Evaluation System (SAETHE), seeking to observe how the implementation of this public educational policy occurred and what were the difficulties faced. Thus, a discussion was presented about Early Childhood Education and about the assessment in this school stage, which gauges reading and writing from the 2nd period of Early Childhood Education in the municipal teaching network of Teresina-PI. Nunes (2011), Micarello (2010) and Barbosa (2013), Condé (2013) and Mainardes (2006), among others, were used to discuss the theme. The general objective defined for this study was to analyze the implementation of the external evaluation of Early Childhood Education in the city of Teresina (SAETHE) as a public educational policy and to propose an Educational Action Plan. To this end, the following objectives were defined: to present the history of early childhood education in Brazil amid public policies; describe SAETHE, a largescale assessment of early childhood education in Teresina; analyze how the implementation of the External Evaluation System, SAETHE, was and the difficulties faced; propose an educational action plan in order to reduce the distance between the Municipal Education Secretariat and the actors in the context of practice, promoting the participation of these actors and seeking, at the same time, to improve the assessments of children in early childhood education. Based on these elements, the present case study sought to answer the following question: How has the external evaluation of early childhood education in Teresina been implemented? For that, we used qualitative and descriptive research as a methodology and, as instruments, the interview and the questionnaire. As a result, SAETHE was identified as a top / down policy, as there is a gap between the Municipal Education Secretariat of Teresina and the actors in the context of practice. It was also identified that the process of implementing the public educational policy SAETHE presented problems of misinterpretations about such policy.