Ensino médio e avaliação em larga escala: estudo de caso em uma escola estadual mineira

Abstract

This dissertation was developed within the scope of the Professional Master’s in Educational Management and Evaluation (PPGP) of the Center for Public Policies and Education Evaluation of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAED/UFJF). The management case under study had the general objective of investigating and analyzing the factors that lead public high school students to obtain lower than expected average marks in external evaluations, presenting the results obtained by the school between the years 2013 to 2019, a temporal cut was made in the first year class of high school in 2017 for the case study. We emphasize that the investigated school will be called by the fictitious name of “Imperial” State School, with the purpose of maintaining the anonymity of the professionals involved in the case.The challenges of high school and large-scale educational assessment in the national, state, and school contexts, as well as the performance data of the students of the school selected for the research on large-scale evaluations. A field research with collective semi-structured interviews was conducted with the management team, teachers, and students of the school. After data collection and analysis, it was possible to conclude that the factors that lead to the school’s poor performance in external evaluations are school climate issues, which are mainly related to interpersonal relationships; teaching process and learning, which does not promote specific pedagogical interventions to improve the learning of lagging students; and appropriation of results, which has not been used as a pedagogical tool. Moreover, teachers do not make use of all the possibilities offered by the school, which highlights the absence of actions integrating the teaching process and content learning with the use of the technological resources. Finally, an Educational Action Plan (EAP) was proposed to address the identified problems.