Avaliação externa em Goiás na perspectiva de estudantes,professores/as e gesoras: a mercantilização da educação

Abstract

Our main object of study was the Avaliação Dirigida Amostral (ADA), an evaluation applied in a sampling manner in only some institutions chosen by means of a draw in the state of Goiás. This evaluation is applied in two stages, the first with the purpose of diagnosing the beginning of the process, in which the students have not yet had contact with the contents, and the second which is carried out two months later, after the work with the contents in the classroom. These evaluations are different, but they contemplate the same contents, descriptors and abilities. The paths taken have also led us to reflect on the quasi-market relations that are imposed on public education. The research institution is part of the Novo Futuro Program in Goiás, where full-time high schools were established based on charter schools, a model of public school with the management logic of private school units, aimed at preparing young people for their academic career, mainly. Our priority is to analyze how ADA and the other external evaluations are understood by the participants of this evaluation process. For this, we interviewed the manager and the coordinators of a state school unit in Itumbiara-GO, in addition to two focus groups, one with students and the other with teachers from a 3rd grade high school class from this same school. We realized with this study that takes place the unilateral accountability, understood in our study as a way to put the full weight of the results of external evaluations only on the participants of the school (students, teachers and managers) and take responsibility off the State. However, it doesn’t happen only with the ADA, but also regarding the Enem (National High School Examination). For students and teachers, the Enem is more important than external tests, due to the importance that the school and its participants give to the entrance on universities. The evaluative routine of this school presents a large number of internal and external tests, leading teachers to question which one they should focus more. For the students, according to the reports, we realize that this high number of tests has become a "habit", and for them it is only "one more test".