Prova Brasil : Building a Framework to Promote Measurable Progress in Learning Outcomes

Prova Brasil : Building a Framework to Promote Measurable Progress in Learning Outcomes

Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a nationwide test of proficiency in math and Portu...

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Main Authors: Parandekar, Suhas, Amorim, Érica, Welsh, Andrea
Format: Brief
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ABILITIES OF CHILDREN
BASIC EDUCATION
BASIC EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
CAREER
CIVIL SOCIETY
CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
CLASSROOM
EDUCATION COMMUNITY
EDUCATION LEVEL
EDUCATION OFFICIALS
EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION REFORM
EDUCATION SECTOR
EDUCATION SERVICES
EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
ENROLLMENT
ETHICS
FAMILY LIFE
HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INSTRUCTION
LEADERSHIP
LEARNING
LEARNING OUTCOMES
LEARNING PROCESS
LITERATURE
MEASURING EDUCATION QUALITY
MEASURING LEARNING OUTCOMES
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
MUNICIPAL EDUCATION COUNCIL
MUNICIPAL EDUCATION SECRETARIATS
PEDAGOGY
PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS
PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION
PRIMARY EDUCATION
PRIMARY EDUCATION SPENDING
PRIMARY SCHOOL
PRIMARY SCHOOL LEVEL
PRIMARY STUDENTS
PROFESSORS
PROFICIENCY
QUALITY EDUCATION
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
REPORT CARDS
RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
SCHOOL ACTIVITIES
SCHOOL COMMUNITY
SCHOOL DISTRICT
SCHOOL EDUCATION
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT
SCHOOL PRINCIPALS
SCHOOL QUALITY
SCHOOL SPACE
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SOCIAL RELATIONS
STANDARDIZED TESTS
STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT
STUDENT LEARNING
STUDENT PERFORMANCE
TEACHER
TEACHER TRAINING
TEACHERS
TEACHING
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
TEST SCORES
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/03/9669063/prova-brasil-building-framework-promote-measurable-progress-learning-outcomes
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10283
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Summary:Building on two decades of education reform, Brazil's Ministry of Education (MEC) implemented a key instrument for measuring education quality in 2005, when it first administered Prova Brasil, a nationwide test of proficiency in math and Portuguese for students in grades 4 and 8. Prova Brasil, which will be administered to primary students every three years, is the country's first census-level assessment of student learning, and forms the cornerstone of a drive to improve basic education quality and establish a results framework for measuring learning outcomes. The aim of this study has been to promote discussion rather than to provide definitive solutions. Beyond the limited set of specific practices observed and reported upon in the course of this small study, a wide variety of good practices are being implemented in Brazilian school districts, day after day, as teachers, principals, education officials, and parents each make their indispensable contributions to student learning. The reason one municipality achieves better test scores than another is almost certainly due to a occurrence of good practices and the interaction among them, or to a particular confluence of local characteristics and events whose effects continue to accumulate over time. Therefore, the description of good practices in this brief policy note can not be taken as the single best recipe for achieving good test results. Quite to the contrary, it is the aim of this study to demonstrate that there are many possible routes to success.

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