Indicadores educacionais do ensino fundamental: uma análise nos municípios Paraibanos

Abstract

The present study aimed to verify the influence of educational indicators on the results of Ideb 2019 in the early and final years of elementary school in Paraíba municipalities, as a way of evaluating public educational policies. Using the data provided by the Public Expenditure Performance Indicators platform of Paraíba (IDGPB), a descriptive, documentary, bibliographic and quantitative research was adopted to meet the proposed objective, having as a sample 188 municipalities in Paraíba that had their Ideb 2019 results released. The municipalities with the highest and lowest results in the Ideb were delimited, then a simple linear regression model was applied to determine the explanatory power of the chosen variables. The results obtained demonstrate that there is a significant influence of the IDGPB indicators on the results of the Ideb 2019 in the two teaching phases, with the most significant variables being Directors chosen by political appointment, being negatively related to the result and Adequacy of teacher training, positively related to the result of the ideb. It was also found that there are more variables with greater influence in the final years of elementary school, whether they are: Full-time students; Share of personnel expenses and cost per student.