Avaliação institucional participativa: o olhar a partir da realidade de uma escola estadual em São Paulo - Brasil

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the participative institutional evaluation in elementary education, highlighting the limits and potentials of its effectiveness in practice, with an emphasis on participation. We understand the need for democratization of schools and we want to point out the participative institutional evaluation process as one of the tools to achieve it; however, we recognize that there are limits inside the school reality. Thus, a qualitative research was accomplished based on observations at a state public school, named Gama, as well as on document analysis about institutional evaluation sent to school. The educational quality requires an understanding of formative assessment that, at school’s daily routine, should involve the community participation.