Premiação escolar por desempenho dos estudantes da educação básica: o caso do prêmio escola com excelência em desempenho

Abstract

Basic education plays a fundamental role in social development, making investment in its improvement essential. In this context, this study evaluated the impact of the Prêmio Escola com Excelência em Desempenho (Pemed), an initiative by the Municipality of Fortaleza that recognizes municipal schools and students with high performance in the Sistema Permanente de Avaliação da Educação Básica do Ceará (SPAECE). To measure the effects of the award, the Ideb of schools recognized in the 2019 edition was compared with that of similar institutions that were not awarded. To minimize potential biases in this comparison, the entropy balancing method was employed, adjusting the weighting of the groups to make them equivalent in terms of prior performance. The results indicate that the program had a positive impact on the educational performance of awarded schools, with more significant effects in the early years of elementary education.