Descompassos do Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica

Abstract

The Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) is presented by the Brazilian government as a challenging proposition. Increasing school average by the year 2022 to six (6,0), implies the practice of all Brazilian schools be similar to the current school average of countries considered developed, the countries that compose the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The data from IDEB arise through a combination of school dropout with the results of Prova Brasil and, from the intersection of both, statistical indicators are obtained that, according to the proposal, guide the schools to delineate individual strategies for improving the quality of teaching and learning. Thus, it is evident the immense complexity of this educational evaluation system. In this sense, the research aims to analyze the dissonances of the evaluation implemented by the IDEB building on the results released by the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the documents published by the media. This discussion will take place from a historical incursion on educational evaluation and the discussion regarding the evaluation of learning. One of the most important issues is that there is a dissonance between the theory of IDEB proposed by the government and the practical reality that undermines the veracity of the improvement reflected in the improvement of numerical indices on Brazilian public education. The research approach is sociohistorical on a quantitative and qualitative perspective. The research showed that gaps of IDEB are evidenced from the moment that the progress of schools indices significantly improve ignoring some elements that should be fundamental in this evaluation, not penalizing, inclusively the absence of students in Prova Brasil, which is one of the indicators that compose the IDEB.