Experiência concomitante de monitoramento e avaliação do Projeto Reinventando o Ensino Médio

Abstract

This article’s purpose is to present the experience of both monitoring and evaluating the implementation of Reinventando o Ensino Médio (Reinventing High School), an educational policy carried out by the Education State Department of Minas Gerais, Brazil. This new policy aims to reformulate secondary education, rebuilding its identity and making it more attractive in order to prepare students to pursuit higher education and/or to prepare them for work. This article presents the methodologies used throughout the process and its results. The concurrent monitoring and evaluation of the project in the first year, during its pilot, aimed at gathering information to refine its design. The knowledge derived from these activities enabled the government to correct the policy direction, and go deep in understanding its potential to change reality. Both processes brought up essential and consistent information to improve the policy implementation, and the project has proved to be effective to develop students’ performance.