Estudos em Avaliação Educacional
Print version ISSN 0103-6831On-line version ISSN 1984-932X
Abstract
KOSLINSKI, Mariane Campelo; RIBEIRO, Eduardo and OLIVEIRA, Luisa Xavier de. Educatio nal indicators and school accounta bility: a st udy about the “Prêmio Escola Nota Dez”. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2017, vol.28, n.69, pp.804-846. Epub Dec 01, 2017. ISSN 1984-932X. https://doi.org/10.18222/eae.v28i69.4087.
The paper focuses on the impact of the use of the School Performance Index - Literacy (IDE-Alfa) by the “Prêmio Escola Nota Dez”, a policy of the State of Ceará, that establishes cut-off points to award and to allocate financial support to public schools. It uses the Propensity Score Matching and multiple regressions methods to observe the effects of the reward/financial support on school performance, equity, and student participation rate on the external assessment of schools awarded and supported from 2009 to 2011, based on schools´ Index of school Performance results (IDE-Alfa) from 2008 to 2010. The results suggest a positive effect on the performance, equity and participation rate of the awarded schools and a smaller, but also positive, effect on performance of the schools with similar characteristics to the awarded ones. The results show a statistically significant impact only on the participation rate of the schools that received financial support.
Keywords : Educational Indicators; Accountability; Educational Policies; Salary Bonuses.