Abstract

SOARES NETO, Joaquim José; JESUS, Girlene Ribeiro de; KARINO, Camila Akemi  and  ANDRADE, Dalton Francisco de. Uma escala para medir a infraestrutura escolar. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2013, vol.24, n.54, pp.78-99. ISSN 0103-6831.

To promote education requires ensuring an environment with conditions for learning to occur. It is important to provide a physical environment, here called the school infrastructure, or to make it possible to stimulate learning, besides providing human interactions. In this context, this paper aims to investigate the quality of the infrastructure of Brazilian schools. To that end, we developed a scale of school infrastructure, built using the Item Response Theory and based on data from the School Census of Basic Education 2011. From the scale, four categories were established for the infrastructure of schools: Elementary, Basic, Appropriate and Advanced. This paper makes a comparative analysis between the school infrastructure by region and administrative dependence. The results presented here also allow future studies about the impact of material conditions of schools on student learning.

Keywords : Item Response Theory; Rating Scale; Learning Processes; School Infrastructure.

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