Baixo índice de participação dos alunos no exame da Prova Brasil: o caso de seis escolas estaduais em Porto Velho/RO

Abstract

The present dissertation is developed under the scope of Professional Master’s Degree in Management and Evaluation of Education (PPGP) of the center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd / UFJF). The management case studied discusses the low participation rate of students in the exam of the Brazil Test in the editions of 2011, 2013 and 2015, in six state schools in Porto Velho city. The research was based on evidences of a low participation rate of students in the Brazil Test in the six schools surveyed in the years 2011, 2013 and 2015 detected in the exercise of my function in the core of Planning and External Evaluations of the Control, Evaluation and Statistics Management, at the headquarters of the State Secretariat of Education of Rondônia, in Porto Velho, where I have the attribution of interpreting and analyzing the results of external evaluations of state schools such as those that compose the SAEB (ANRESC, ANEB and ANA). The defined goals for this study were: i) to describe possible factors that influence the students’ participation in the Brazil Test exam; ii) to analyze possible factors that influence students’ participation in the Brazil Test exam and the implications resulting of the low participation rate for the school network, from school units and students; iii) to propose actions, in view of the research findings. For that, we use the qualitative analysis with the purpose of understanding and answering which factors have influenced the low participation rate of the students on the day of the Brazil Test in the opinion of the school managers? Moreover, which management profiles have influenced the student participation data in the external evaluations? The discussions were based on the following authors: Souza (2017), which addresses theories of educational management and school management; Soares and Teixeira (2006), which approach the profile of the school director, and Oliveira and Carvalho (2018), which deal with school management and the director's leadership. By this analysis, a case study was carried out and the instruments of data collection were the semi-structured interview with the school managers and pedagogical manager of the CRE, as well as secondary and documentary data. The results of the study pointed out that students have no interest in taking the test and, in addition, the way in which managers lead the evaluation process, influence on students' participation rates on the day of test application, showing indications that the student participation rate increases when managers encourage students to participate. As a result, the Educational Action Plan proposes articulated and integrated actions between Seduc Headquarters, CRE and schools, encouraging the students' participation not only in evaluation but also in school activities, aiming at improving the results of schools.