Avaliações Municipais no Contexto Educacional Cearense: Contornos, Intenções e Finalidades

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the implementation of own evaluations at the municipal level, examining the intentions of this measure, the characteristics and uses of the results of these evaluations. In order to base itself theoretically, the study carried out three distinct exercises. Initially, it placed municipal assessments in the history of external and large-scale assessments established in Brazil since 1990, with a focus on elementary education. Then, it examinated the scientific output on municipal conveyed to six different databases from 1990 to 2016. Finally, led a discussion on the uses of the results of municipal assessments, bringing up the actual observations and findings by different theorists. In order to contribute to broadening the knowledge and strengthening of the discussions on this topic, this thesis was outlined with the purpose of revealing how and how six municipalities in the state of Ceará have been promoting their own evaluations in their respective education networks. So, the profiles of the evaluation proposals implemented and implemented by these municipalities, the motivations that contributed to its genesis, the objectives aimed at its achievement and the uses made of the data offered by these evaluations were taken as reference. From the methodological point of view, the study is qualitative and exploratory, in the mold of a field research combined with documentary research. Thus, in addition to the interview with professionals of each network who have / had a leading role in the evaluation, we used the collection of documents about the initiative, prepared by the Municipal Education Department. It was concluded, based on the research carried out in the municipalities, that self-evaluation has been configured as an important instrument both for the management of municipal education and for the management of educational processes within each school. It is noted that there is an interaction between the objectives pursued, the contours of these evaluation proposals and the uses of their results, and the evaluations themselves are adopted by the municipalities a strategy to enable the improvement of student learning and, therefore, the performance of these students in the external evaluations applied by the state of Ceará and by the federal government.