Possibilidades de aperfeiçoamento do Sistema Mineiro de Administração Escolar (SIMADE)

Abstract

This dissertation has as an objective to describe and analyze the factors that makes it difficult about the uses of the Sistema Mineiro de Administração Escolar (SIMADE) [Minas Gerais School Administration System (SIMADE)] in its entirety by the users in the schools of Minas Gerais state. The SEEMG Resolution nº 1180, of August 28, 2008 made it obligatory to use the system in all the schools of said network and its version for internet was gradual available to schools in the same year. Although the system is used by all the 3.660 schools in the state of Minas Gerais, users still having doubts about the handling of Simade and does not use the system in its entirety. The mainly objectives of this work were: to describe the case of Simade, focusing on the critical elements for the full use of its resources by the users of the schools; Describe the profile of Simade users in schools; To raise the conditions for the use of Simade in schools; Identify the main difficulties that users faces while using Simade; And analyze the critical factors that makes it difficult to use Simade, through the relationship between users' profile, conditions of use and the users’s most difficulties. The research question was: What factors make it difficult for the system’s users to use Simade in schools? To answer this question, an empirical study was conducted, which took place in two phases. In the first qualitative phase, eight interviews were made, four of them with directors and four with employees from the schools secretariats. In the second quantitative phase, the links of two questionnaires were sent to the institutional e-mail of all the schools in the state of Minas Gerais, obtaining 414 responses in director’s questionnaire and 487 answers in the official questionnaire of school secretary. In addition, a theoretical foundation was made about the casethat was studied and the proposal of an Plano de Ação Educacional (PAE) [Educational Action Plan (PAE)] from the empirical study.