The hard task of establishing standards of academic performance

• Autor(a) principal: Guimarães de Castro, Maria Helena
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos Cenpec (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://cadernos.cenpec.org.br/cadernos/index.php/cadernos/article/view/1
• topic: Sistemas de avaliação educacional; Avaliação do desempenho escolar; Avaliação da qualidade na educação; SAEB; Saresp; Proeb; Educational assessment systems; Academic performance assessment; Assessment of quality in education; SAEB; Saresp; Proeb

This text looks at the role of assessment systems in the context of Brazilian education. It examines the SAEB (Portuguese acronym for System of Assessment for Basic Education) and experiences in two states: the Program of Assessment of the Basic Education Public School System, or Proeb, in Minas Gerais and the São Paulo State System of Assessment of Academic Yield, or Saresp, in São Paulo. It highlights the importance of large-scale assessment as a fundamental instrument in achieving better quality education. An overview of academic performance allows for a deeper debate on the educational situation of a country, guiding public policies. Evidence is shown that each educational system should develop its own assessment methods, to depict the reality of the schools which each one is directly responsible for and define actions for systematic improvement and monitoring. The conclusion is reached that policies for disclosure as well as the use of more consistent actions are lacking. At the state level, the big challenge is for data to reach the schools and is used in the classroom to enhance teaching practices. Solutions such as faculty participation in every stage of the process, discussion of the assessment by all actors involved and political will to make results transparent, informing public opinion, are highlighted.