As práticas de divulgação do SIMAVE pela Secretaria de Educação de Minas Gerais: investigação da apropriação de resultados pelos Burocratas de médio escalão no contexto de três Superintendências Regionais de Ensino

Abstract

This dissertation was developed based on the Minas Gerais Public Education Evaluation and Equity System (SIMAVE), a public policy providing data on educational performance and student learning. The management case evaluates the results dissemination practices adopted by the Minas Gerais State Department of Education (SEE/MG), based on the perception of employees of regional teams, considered mid-level bureaucrats. We raise the following research question: do the dissemination actions carried out by SEE/MG effectively train and equip managers and regional teams to appropriate the results of SIMAVE's external assessments? This work's general objective is to understand how the instruments provided by SEE/MG support regional teams in the work of appropriating the results of SIMAVE's external assessments. The specific objectives established are: i) Describe the duties of the teams involved in Simave's external evaluation processes and the SEE/MG institutional tools made available to professionals to appropriate the evaluation results; ii) Analyze how regional teams appropriate the results of evaluations through the instruments provided by the Superintendency of Educational Evaluation (SAE), and how the data are used in planning interventions in state schools; and iii) Propose actions aimed at disseminating results in order to mitigate the difficulties highlighted by regional teams in the process of appropriating evaluation results. We raise the following question: Do the dissemination actions carried out by SEE/MG effectively train and equip managers and regional teams to appropriate the results of SIMAVE's external evaluations? The research has a qualitative approach, as it uses methodological procedures: bibliographical research, documentary research and data collection through semi-structured interviews with analysts from the Regional Education Superintendencies (SRE). The theoretical references presented include the discussion on evaluation, evaluation and quality systems, dissemination of results and accountability and the role of Mid-Level Bureaucrats. We adopted the notes of Brooke and Cunha (2011), Horta Neto (2010), Machado (2012), Fontanive (2013), Gimenes et al. (2013), Sousa (2014), Gatti (2014), Franco and Calderón (2017), Pestana (2021), Fernandes (2013), Fernandes and Gremaud (2009), Bonamino and Sousa (2012), Tavares Júnior and Neubert (2014), and the perspective of Cavalcante and Lotta (2015); Novato, Najberg and Lotta (2020), and Pires and Oliveira (2015). The research highlighted the need to improve the instruments available, as a way of strengthening the practices adopted by SEE/MG professionals. The Educational Action Plan (PAE) developed in this dissertation proposes actions aimed at improving the dissemination of results to regional teams that favor the process of appropriation of assessment results.