Abstract

VIDAL, Eloísa Maia  and  FARIAS, Isabel Maria Sabino de. Avaliação da aprendizagem e política educacional: desafios para uma nova agenda. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2008, vol.19, n.40, pp.223-246. ISSN 0103-6831.

This paper analyzes the results of the SAEB national exam during the 1995-2005 period, when six exams were applied.  The analysis aims at discussing the conclusions that the SAEB indicators allow to draw about students’ learning process in the Brazilian educational system, as well as its implications in defining a political agenda to assure the right to education, here understood as the right to learn.  The reflection is based on the school results in the State of Ceará, analyzing them in the light of the situation found not only in the Northeast of Brazil, but also all over Brazil, during that period.  The indicators reveal that the learning process is weak in the State’s Basic Education system.  The State of Ceará has made efforts to improve the quality of its education under the orientation of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC), while at the same time highlighting the need to create its own means.  The reflection shows that improvement in education lies beyond the individual and abnegate effort of teachers, making clear the need to re-think the aims of the education agenda for the next years as a step to avoid that the right to education be the privilege of a few.

Keywords : Education Policy; Evaluation of the Learning Process; Right to Education.

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