O desempenho dos alunos na transição entre os sistemas da rede pública petropolitana – um estudo de caso

Abstract

This piece of work sets out to find all factors that interfere in the performance of students who finish Elementary school and start High school, most of them decline in their quality of learning. This research compared and analyzed the results obtained by those students on the exam called " Prova Petrópolis" in 9th grade of Elementary school in 2011 May and then, later on in "Saerjinho", High school first grade in 2012 April. It is based on studies by Berger Filho (2002), Neubauer (2011) and Soares (2005), which are presented in the Education and Action Plan to improve greatly students' way of learning and development. The Action Plan has as its guiding principle the methodology of Cooperative Learning, a pedagogical tool that has proved to be very effective, facilitating and making the students learning more meaningful.