A distorção idade-série e o desempenho escolar em matemática no 9º ano da Rede Municipal de Educação de Belo Horizonte- RME/BH

Abstract

The theme of this article refers to the relationship between age-grade distortion and 9th grade elementary school students' performance in mathematical discipline. This is an investigative study that aims to analyze the age / grade distortion and its possible relationship with the low performance in mathematics of students in the 9th grade of elementary school in the Municipal Education Network of Belo Horizonte - RME / BH. It is hypothesized that the student's irregular trajectory is a factor that influences poor school performance. In this sense, we sought to build hypotheses about the influence of the flow correction programs implemented at RME / BH in recent years in the correction of the age-grade distortion indicator. The age-grade distortion data from RME / BH for the period 2015 to 2019 and the performance of 9th grade students who were in age-grade distortion in nine municipal schools were analyzed in the Simave / Proeb assessment in the period from 2015 to 2019. The results show that age-grade distortion is a chronic problem in RME / BH, as it keeps 16% to 18% of students in age-grade distortion annually. The analysis of the performances in the Proeb evaluation indicates that students in age-grade distortion have average proficiency that places them in the Low or Intermediate performance standard in the Simave classification, inferior to the other students in the schools.