Auto-Avaliação Institucional na Educação Básica - uma contribuição necessária para o aprimoramento das práticas pedagógicas

Abstract

The pedagogical practices needs are known to be improved, the same way it is known to exist an instance of resisting towards them and to exist practices which are ineffective on the pedagogical and active school administration. Herein it is discussed the issue by which an improvement can be triggered so that the fortunate results can be presented. This way, this research aims to show the institutional auto-assessment and how it has contributed for the school management democratization, when it has got as its principle the reflection itself over the data designated on the assessment in favor of the team growth, in favor of the practice change, therefore in favor of the learning-teaching quality process. Approaching the institutional auto-assessment on the quality perspective of educational and participating action, there is no possibility to separate assessment from ethical-political debate about the ways and goals of the national education and the role of the educator as a mediator of the new social practice formation available to the school. The institutional auto-assessment incorporate then, an emancipating diagnoses role, in the moment it becomes an effective tool in order to make possible to the school to rethink its Pedagogical Policy Project through collective critical reflection that considers all participants as auto-determined human beings, who are able to be consciously and actively part of the needing transformations, this way establishing goals that are common to all elements. The theoretical option for the critical-reflexive analysis of the described practices is addressed to the most recent studies about assessment, placing it as a critical issue towards the transformation of the educational action and of the involvement of all school segments for its meaning as an actual learning space. Qualitative Research has been the chosen one by the methodology of Study of Case, with a technique of data selection through document analysis plus interview, what has allowed to identify some information useful as basic component of the research, such as the difficulty the school has to focus its problems as a starting point to improve this institution work. Thus, this work gathers a critical description and reflection on the assessment practice of a elementary school in the city of Presidente Prudente SP, showing it is evident that the schools makes its institutional auto-assessment empirically, just to follow a bureaucratic demanding, lacking to achieve its initial purpose of school practice change and an updating of its pedagogical policy project. Despite the school team to recognize the importance of assessment, planning, participation on their speech. On the other hand, on a day-by-day basis those important elements seem to be rendered by the emergencies of each moment, leaving school thinking to a second place, considering it less urgent. A challenge is kept then towards a mature assessment practice over school doings, their aims, the real knowledge about community necessities, leveling them some way, with the public policies, by a Pedagogical Policy Project which is true and coherent , coming from a diversity of looks that make reality.