Quality indicators mobilize school

• Autor(a) principal: Ribeiro, Vera Masagão
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Vanda Mendes, Gusmão, Joana Buarque de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Cenpec
• Texto Completo: http://cadernos.cenpec.org.br/cadernos/index.php/cadernos/article/view/4
• topic: Sistemas de avaliação; Indicadores da qualidade na educação; Mobilização; Participação; Melhoria da qualidade na educação; Assessment systems; Indicators of quality in education; Mobilization; Participation; Improvement of quality in education

This text talks about the Indicators of Quality in Education, developed in Brazil through an initiative by the Ação Educativa NGO, sponsored by Unicef (United Nations Children’s Fund) and the UNDP (United Nations Development Program). In the context of creating and reporting on the results of educational assessment systems, it was found that schools neither appropriate this information nor are they able to take on a leading role, furthermore ending up the victimized by the stigma of incompetence. The main goal of this project is engagement, mobilization of the community in the struggle to improve quality in the school. In the preliminary version of the Indicators, 14 schools in five regions of Brazil were included, formulating a measurement system that gives the subjects themselves the prerogative to attribute values to different aspects of academic reality, collectively assessing in a manner that everyone can learn and discuss, allowing them to decide on priorities for action to improve this situation. Debate was fostered by the methodology, highlighting differences and shedding light on issues that had previously gone unnoticed while instilling a willingness to resolve the problems found. The text concludes that one of the most important aspects was the diversity of the actors participating in the development of the indicators. A quality education for everyone in Brazil requires an alliance between teaching professionals, the population and civil society organizations with public agencies at the various levels of government and international agencies.