Uma proposta de consolidação da prova padronizada na rede municipal de Teresina

Abstract

This work was developed on the Professional Master in Management and Education Evaluation from the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation on the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case presented here discusses the use of the Standardized Test by teachers, coordinators and principals of 6th to 9th grades from elementary education in public schools from Teresina/Brazil, considering that this evaluation must be used as a pedagogical tool in order to improve its implementation process. The Standardized Test is an external evaluation on Portuguese Language and Math, applied to students in 6th to 9th grades. The aims of this study were: investigating the appropriation of the Standardized Test results as a pedagogical tool inside Teresina public schools; describing the process of Standardized Test implementation, since its conception (2009) until 2015, in the city educational system from Teresina; understanding how the school actors appropriate the results of the Standardized Test in the period of this research; proposing actions aimed at improving the process that involves the Standardized Test in a way that it can be adopted in schools by teachers, principals and pedagogical coordinators as a pedagogical tool which contributes more consistently to student learning. For that, we use quantitative and qualitative research as methodology, and as instrument we use a questionnaire applied to Portuguese Language and Mathematics teachers, directors and pedagogical coordinators who work in the 6th to 9th grades in schools from the city educational system. It was noticed that individuals understand that the Standardized Test has a diagnostic function. However, the use and appropriation of its results are still fragile, requiring actions aimed at overcoming this posture considering the data of the tests. We searched on the theoretical frameworks the discussion about matrices and curriculum, external and internal evaluation, since they are issues that increase the understanding about the Standardized Test and its effective use. Based on the results obtained on this research, an educational action plan was developed in order to consolidate the PP in the educational system.