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05/11/2012
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The Bill 1530/11, which requires schools to disclose their Index Basic Education Development (Ideb), divided opinion on Thursday (10) at the public hearing of the Committee on Education and Culture to discuss the matter. Under the proposal, the index will be released on a square meter boards posted on the door of the premises.
While some experts have argued that disclosure will help drive improvements in the quality of schools, others argued that the initiative could cause embarrassment for students and teachers. The rapporteur of the text, Mr Lelo Coimbra (PMDB-ES), believed to be necessary to improve the dissemination of the actual performance of schools. "We need to improve the advertising content without society feel attacked," he said. "The community should know the quality of the school and should be able to intervene," he added.
Created in 2007, Ideb has a scale of zero to ten. Synthesizes two concepts about the quality of education: the approval and the average performance of students in the Portuguese language and mathematics. The indicator is calculated from data on school approval, obtained in the school census, and average performances on the assessments of the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research (INEP), the System of Basic Education Evaluation System (Saeb) and Test Brazil. Currently, the site publishes the results of the INEP, which are also sent in a newsletter for each school.
Community Involvement
The education specialist Gustavo Ioschpe defended the right of parents to know the real potential of school children. "We need community involvement for the Brazilian education has leap forward," he argued. According to the researcher, parents do not know how to evaluate properties. Moreover, he stressed that the spread of Ideb can help recognize and honor the principals and teachers who get great results. "Education professionals need public recognition."
The Secretary of Education in Rio de Janeiro, Helena Bomeny, is also supporting the proposal. She said that in the state, the disclosure of Ideb plaque has already been implemented in schools. "Without disclosure quality index, the school will not seek to improve," said.
Embarrassment students
For the president of the National Union of Municipal Directors of Education (Undime) Cleuza Rodrigues Repulho, however, posting on the door of the school Ideb is "cruel" and help to stigmatize students. "It is stamped on the forehead of the children that they are poor, black, living in distant places and still studying at the worst school," he opined. For her, the initiative will also make the teachers do not want to work in institutions with bad indexes. Cleuza proposed disclosure of the index by free institutions, is the meeting of parents at school or on posters.
"The board will remind your child every day that she is in a bad school," reiterated the Secretary-General of the National Confederation of Education Workers (CNTE), Marta Vanelli. The argument was rejected by Ioschpe: "What compels is the poor quality of teaching and non-disclosure."
In turn, Marta Vanelli argued that the lines of the project is the idea that the school has to improve, regardless of whether it receives funding for.
Ranking
Mrs Professor Dorinha Seabra Rezende (DEM-TO) criticized the proposal in question. In her opinion, the plates will generate a ranking of schools. "The assessment must be an instrument of change, not with embarrassment," he opined. According to Dorinha, the disclosure should be internal, for teachers, parents and the rest of the community in order to generate improvements in teaching.
Mr Izalci (PR-DF) is also contrary to the plates, but stressed the need to define an instrument to inform parents about the actual quality of the school children.
Criteria Ideb
The representative of the National Council of Education Secretaries (Consed), Claudio Cavalcanti Ribeiro, noted that the socioeconomic context in which the school is embedded is not taken into account in Ideb. "We have students in Para spending three and a half hours to get to the classroom and three hours to get back," said Ribeiro, who is also Secretary of Education Para According to him, that should be discussed at this time is the funding of public education in the country
Director of Educational Statistics INEP, Carlos Eduardo Sampaio, stated that the Ideb serves as a reference of school quality, but is not complete and does not include all the indicators of excellence.
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