Avaliação institucional na escola pública de educação básica: Possibilidades para aprimoramento da gestão escolar

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to verify how the public school of basic education is utilizing the results of institutional evaluation in its forms of internal and external evaluation, for improving her management, projects and plans for overcoming her limitations and difficulties in the betterment of teaching quality. For reaching this purpose, the researcher chose a qualitative approach and utilized the proceeding of case study of a public school of the school system of São Paulo State/School Division of Ourinhos Region. For collecting relevant information and perspective of the subjects involved in the research, three instruments were used: observation of school environment, document analysis, and semistructured interview. Members of school segments represented in the School Board (Principal, vice-principal, two coordinators, six teachers, two functionaries, four parents, and four pupils) were subjects of the research. Data analysis revealed significant aspects related to the obstacles in the utilization of relevant information resulting from the external and internal institutional evaluation, for the collective, continuous and effective reflection and for the mobilization of collective actions in the process of elaboration, follow-up and reformulation of the Educative Project, the Management Project, and yearly school plans. The internal and external school self-evaluation should be implemented in a way more coherent with school reality and need and become a pedagogical and political instrument to be utilized, with the school community participation, for the elaboration of her projects and plans of school pedagogical work and for their periodical updating and adaptation to the new historical context of society and school. It became evident that institutional evaluation should become an instrument to be used by the public school of basic education for overcoming her limitations and difficulties in a process which permits to improve her pedagogical practice, thus making possible the improvement of her management, and as a consequence, improving the quality of basic education.