Desafios para o progresso do desempenho de uma escola estadual de Minas Gerais no SIMAVE /PROEB: um caso de gestão

Abstract

The present dissertation was developed within the scope of the Professional Master 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). It is important to notice that the researched school will be called by the fictional name “State School Joaquim Calixto de Souza”, with the purpose of protecting the professionals’ identity. The studied management case discusses the factors that have been obstructing the proficiency advance of the High School’s third-grade students from that school, located in Minas Gerais, during the period between 2010 and 2016. The evaluated disciplines were Portuguese and Math, and this assessment was made by the Assessment Program of the Public Basic Education (PROEB). In this context, the question of this study is: what are the main challenges found by the State School Joaquim Calixto de Souza for improving the results in those evaluations? Because of this question, the general objective of this study is to identify the challenges from the State School Joaquim Calixto de Souza for improving those results and to propose actions for decreasing those difficulties. The objectives defined for this study were: i) describe the performance indices obtained by the students from the High School’s third grade at the State School Joaquim Calixto de Souza in PROEB; ii) analyze which factors have obstructed the proficiency level advance in PROEB; iii) propose actions for increasing the proficiency level of the High School’s third grade students from that school in Portuguese and Math. Through that, it will be possible to overcome the challenges faced by this school and to improve its students’ results. We assume as hypotheses that there are difficulties during the results’ appropriation process made by the school’s professionals, which was confirmed during the field research analysis. To base our analysis, we used the researches related to the large-scale assessment in education, like the ones made by Gatti (2012). Soligo (2010), Marques (2017), Vieira (2007), Machado (2012), Nogueira (2012) and Locatelli (2002). To obtain the needed data for the management case analysis, we used a qualitative method, focusing on the case study methodology. As research instruments, it was made a documentary research and focus groups with actors involved within the process, such as the pedagogical supervisor, the Portuguese and Math teachers of the third grade and teachers of others non-evaluated disciplines by PROEB since they are also involved in those school’s challenges.