Práticas influentes na melhoria dos índices educacionais: o caso de uma escola do ensino fundamental I em Manaus

Abstract

This present dissertation investigates the influential factors linked to the improvement of the educational indexes in a school that gives classes for beginners students of an Elementary School in Manaus. The core aimed objectives are: to analyze how the management practices and teachers approaches have got to do with the educational performance index achieved; to describe the Brazil Educational Evaluations Tests (Prova Brasil and SADEAM) and the school performance score data achieved; to analyze which factors within school context have contributed to the improvement of the results; to propose a systematization of a written guidance including school own actions and initiatives, aiming to issue a kind of school-booklet-practices that lead to the performance achieve by the school. This written document would represent “The School Institutional Approaches Identity”. The object of this study was a Full-Time Elementary School that stands out for its amazing growing results in large-scale evaluations. We hypothesized that, not only the simple increase of school class hours, is the main factor of the results achieved. But also the management style and pedagogical practices that have been carried out within school. We used external evaluations as data source as it is: the Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) - measured from the Brazil Test; The State System Performance Evaluation of The Amazonas’ State (SADEAM). The methodology applied was “Case Study” focused at Qualitative Perspective. Based on the questions raised in the research template and after all analysis, some suggestions are presented out to this school aiming to provide ideas on how to organize and document its internal teaching actions and practice in a better systematic way.