Evaluation of the More Education program in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Cibele Maria Lima
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Vasconcelos, Ana Lúcia Fontes de Souza, Pereira, Sarah Porto da Paixão Barbosa, Castro, Ana Emília Gonçalves de, Albuquerque, Rosevanya Fortunato de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; spa; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Ibero-Americana de Estudos em Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/iberoamericana/article/view/16618
• topic: Policy evaluation; Comprehensive education; More Education program; Evaluación de políticas; Educación integral; Programa Más Educación; Avaliação de políticas; Educação integral; Programa Mais Educação; Avaliação de políticas educacionais

The article presents some results of a research that evaluated the functioning and results of the Mais Educação Program. This is a survey that had a probabilistic sample (random draw schools from the Ministry of Education register, containing 45,492 schools that were on the accession list, in 2013). The error was 5%. Respecting ethical aspects of free consent and anonymity, we applied questionnaires to teachers, program coordinators and managers of 1,637 schools (distributed in 861 municipalities across the country). The results point to new activities in the curriculum: Sports (62.6%); Arts (49.1%); Scientific Initiation (16.4%). The results also demonstrate that the extension of the school day in elementary education has become desired by 92.9% of school administrators. This reflection is important, considering that the Program operated between 2008 and 2016 (Lula and Dilma governments) and the proposal to extend the school day in elementary education disappeared from the political agenda.