Avaliação do Programa Um computador por Aluno (PROUCA) sob a ótica do modelo CIPP

Abstract

The program A Computer for each Student / Um Computador por Aluno (PROUCA), was introduced in brazilian public schools, as an articulation means between the federal, state, and municipal governments, sustained by the Education Ministry, and with the participation of the education secretaries, universities, educational technology core, among others, and brought with itself the innovation of the individual use of low cost laptops by elementary school students. The incorporation of digital technology inside classes intends to alter the brazilian public schools status, which is traditionally analog and has difficulties in attending the needs of a much more digital society. In the pre-pilot fase, called “Projeto UCA”, the incorporation of laptops was tested in 2007, in five institutions. In 2010, transformed in a program, by the Law 12.249, the PROUCA was inserted in three hundred schools, spread all over the country. At that time, the city of Fortaleza was contemplated with two units, which are: Escola de Ensino Infantil e Fundamental Monteiro Lobato, and the Escola de Ensino Fundamental e Médio Estado do Paraná, that belongs to the state schools network. From the necessity of investigating the effects made by the program, it was established that the main goal of this investigation was to evaluate the results of the program Um Computador por Aluno (PROUCA), at the city of Fortaleza, and in an approach based on the CIPP model, proposed by Daniel Stufflebeam. By that time, it was planned some specific goals, such as: identify the main interested people; material and human resources availables and potential problems of the schools programs; analyse the strategy proposed by the program, paying attention to the beneficiaries needs, from others programs references, searches and possible alternatives strategies, such as its budget sufficiency; investigate the effects of the operationalizing process of the schools program; and analysing in which way the program fitted the beneficiaries, focused on the positives and negatives results at the schools. The methodological route was constituted by an inductive approach, with quantitative (descriptive statistics and hypotheses tests) and qualitative (content analysis) and the action field restrained to the study of the multiple case in two teaching institutions quoted. The strategy of data collection was chosen by documental and field researches, using instruments of the direct observation, questionnaires, interviews and documental analysis. The evaluation revealed that both schools had different reactions faced to distant situations, both lived situations that disrupted the PROUCA development, however, while the adversity scenario stimulated the development of alternative solutions in one of them, and consequentially obtained improvements in educational indicators, in the other prevailed a feeling of frustration and abandonment, which lead to reduction of the program activities, and consequentially, its effects.