A avaliação em larga escala na rede de Colégios Maristas RS

Abstract

This study had the aim to discuss about the evaluation in large-scale of Rede de Colégios Maristas - RS (RCMRS), a Catholic Confessional Institution that is grounded in human principles and that is related to the Província Marista do Rio Grande do Sul (PMRS), associated to the União Marista do Brasil (UMBRASIL), belonging to the Instituto Marista. This private school system with great reference in Rio Grande do Sul State (RS) educational scenery, traced goals in the Strategic Planning (PE) 2012-2022 established from the appeals of the 21st General Chapter of the Instituto Marista with views to the aim of social and financial sustainability. As a form to reach this goal, Guiding Documents as the Projeto Educativo Marista (PEM) and the Matrizes Curriculares do Brasil Marista are implemented by using the evaluation instrument in large-scale to evaluate the learning and the management of the network and its units.The study is based on the methodology of a quantitative and qualitative research. The data of the empiric study were collected through documents from PMRS, data of reports and bulletins of large-scale assessments like National High School Exam (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio - Enem) and Marist Evaluation System (Sistema Marista de Avaliação - SIMA) 2010 to 2014 and questionnaires answered by managers of RCMRS. From the data analysis we demonstrate that this school system, even taking advantages from evaluations strategies of learning and management that also presents a logical and mercantilist educational perspective, has been able to work the results of the evaluations in a large-scale of diagnostic dimension, by the action local plans with the aim to improve the educational quality of the units and by this, to improve the network educational quality. In the line of the reference arrays of the assessments in large-scale, the results that are been obtained by the majority of the Rede de Colégios Marista in RS haven’t show the improvement on educational quality that has been promoted and that is the strategic horizon of the institution yet. In the other side, we note that the institution has been growing in recent years in the number of students, especially in the early levels and that the quality indicators of the institution also are aggregated in the family’s cultural construction, as indicators of quality education. The Humanist and Neoliberal logics present in the current scenario of private confessional catholic institutions, especially in Instituição Marista, show that, at least, there is an urgent problematic to be promoted.