Implicações e limites da avaliação externa em uma escola municipal de Santa Maria – RS

Abstract

This study aims to understand the implications and the limits of external evaluation in a public school from the municipal system of Santa Maria/RS in relation to the school management and to the teaching work. It has a qualitative approach and it is based on a case study as study methodology, being the data gathering from bibliography and documental analysis and semi-structured interviews performed with teachers from the 5th and 9th grade (Portuguese and Mathematics subjects), presidents of the School Council and of the PTO and with the school manager. The interviews revealed that the researched subjects have different perceptions about them, while teachers understand the socioeconomic context interferes on school learning, parents do not identify such interference. For the school manager, the socioeconomic context is important, but it does not determine the learning process. About IDEB relation and quality of education, it was perceived that the opinions are also divergent. Teachers do not recognize IDEB as an indicator of education quality and according to them; quality cannot be measured by a single test, although the parents related a good performance on IDEB with quality education. Finally, the present study pointed out that the existence of external evaluations and results indicators, such as IDEB, which ones will only contribute to qualify educative processes if teachers, school managers, and parents assume a problematizing posture in the face of this process.