Recortes da trajetória cearense no campo da avaliação educacional: o sistema permanente de avaliação da educação básica do Ceará (SPAECE)

Abstract

The educational evaluation is relevant topic in nowdays’s school environment. In an attempt to assess the quality gestated in classrooms, education systems call on external evaluations and create their own systems in order to identify gaps and reorient policies. This article focuses on Ceará pioneering experience that, since 1992, has grown in volume and scope the assessment of the state of Ceara basic education. The Permanent Evaluation System of Basic Education of Ceará (SPAECE) is understood as a prominent current educational policy that causes impacts and changes in school management and teaching practices. This work aims to identify the SPAECE as influential political and transforming the Ceará education. Methodological resources chosen to perform this work are qualitative, combining literature and data provided in the electronic portal of the State Department of Education of Ceará (SEDUC-CE). The article is divided into the following topics: policies and their impacts on systems level; The SPAECE: the pioneering experience of Ceará; The SPAECE today reflexes to Ceará educational system. The study developed in this paper aims to contribute to future research on evaluation policies developed at the state level and its repercussions in Ceará and the Brazilian educational scenario.