O baixo desempenho em matemática no ensino médio: conhecendo uma realidade mineira

Abstract

This present work was developed under the Professional Master Degree in Management and Public Education Evaluation (PPGP) of the Centre for Public Policy and the Education Evaluation Centre of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAED/UFJF). The management case to be studied evaluates the low performance of students from the 3rd grade of a high school in the SIMAVE/PROEB tests, in mathematics, in a small city in the Minas Gerais state. The objectives defined for these studies were: I) describe the school working environment, having in focus the actions developed by the managing team, in terms which concerns the students‘ performance in high school; II) analyse how those actions are developed, also focusing in the process of appropriation of results and the interventions which resulted of that appropriation; III) propose an educational action plan that can contribute with the managing team, in the actions to minimize the problem of low performance. It was taken as hypothesis that the low performance in Mathematics needs to be analysed from the point of view that the management actions suffered breaks of continuation and discontinuation, and associating those analyses to different variables that comprises the environment investigated. It was understood that the lack of a management‘s action which promotes a collective work, facilitating the teaching practice associated to the proposed curriculum by the State, and, still, the lack of actions, specific to the Mathematics subject, could be contributing to maintain the continuous framework of the school performance failure. Therefore, it was chosen the qualitative research as a methodology, the research in a documental basis, the group in focus, and a semi-structured interview with the school manager, the high school Mathematics teacher and with the Mathematics teacher of the last years of the high school period, as instruments to collect data with the objective to better understand the actions taken after the results appropriation and the management of these results. It was also investigated how this confirmation of maintaining the same framework of low performance, interfered in the school dynamic in the teachers and management‘s view. As a consequence, there were gaps in the process of appropriation of results, lack of a collaborative work and cross-disciplinary, the curriculum disarticulation and the disassociation of families. Therefore, the Action Plan presented, proposed the study of the curriculum, closing those gaps in the appropriation of results, the proper planning of cross-disciplinary and the work of integrating the families in the after-class activities of the school.