Apropriação dos resultados do SPAECE pelos gestores escolares: um estudo de caso envolvendo duas escolas do interior do Ceará

Abstract

This work aims to analyze how the school leaders and teachers appropriate on the results from the Permanent Evaluation System of Basic Education from Ceará/Brazil (Sistema Permanente de Avaliação da Educação Básica do Ceará - SPAECE), using them as elements to the improvement of teaching practices in the state high schools under the jurisdiction by the 18th Regional Coordination of Educational Development (18ª Coordenadoria Regional de Desenvolvimento da Educação - CREDE). Despite the teachers’ difficulties referred to the proper use of data from this evaluation, the schools promote moments of study to appropriate on it, in order to implement a more coherent work with actual learning needs of their students. It contributed to these educational institutions reached increment and better results on SPAECE, between all the schools from 18th CREDE, in the period of 2009 to 2011. Through a qualitative research in the form of a case study, we realized how the teachers appropriate on these results in order to reflect on their practice, and how they have used this information on educational efforts to improve their work in classroom. This practice has been recurrent in the schools and, therefore, we conducted semi-structured interviews with managers and teachers of Portuguese Language and Mathematics from the both institutions. The choice on this issue is justified by the need of the schools improve indicators of student performance, and by the great potential that SPAECE has for the reflection on teaching practice, both to improve the work in the classroom and to promote a more equitable education. Our hypothesis is that the appropriation of these results has contributed to the improvement of students performances, since it promotes reflection and the resizing of classroom activities. From the observation of the professionals practices in these two schools, and in order to institutionalize it, we propose a Plan of Educational Action focused on the creation of a Center for the Study of External Evaluation (NEAE), on the extent of the 18th CREDE, in order to promote teacher’s trainings, planning and monitoring of actions for the external evaluation and its results in primary education schools.