Avaliação externa – perspectiva de contribuição à aprendizagem dos alunos da Escola Municipal de Ensino Fundamental Rita Paula de Brito

Abstract

This paper investigates how the evaluation process on a large scale, specifically that is held by the Permanent Rating System of the State of Ceará (PRSCE), contributes for learning of the students of a Municipal School of Basic Education, in the city of Aquiraz, in Ceará. In order to reach the objective, the research sought to determine the design of teachers and students about the PRSCE; to observe the behavior of people involved in the process; to identify how the school utilizes the results of evaluations and conducts the interventions; to check the instruments used in the PRSCE and compare them with those of internal evaluations. This study was characterized as action research, providing opportunities of involvement between the researcher and the research participants, in the search for solution of the problem evidenced. We concluded that when there is a culture of systematic work of study, monitoring, dissemination and analysis of the results of the external evaluations which the school participates, the performance level of the students improved considerably, contributing to achieve the desirable and appropriate proficiency. We suggested to school to receive the evaluation as a management tool, enabling their results are part of its daily life, highlighting the collaborative work and promoting democratic management. The investment in the in-service training of teachers and managers is also very relevant, because it has the purpose of redesign the actions focused on the diagnosis provided by the external evaluations.