Reforço escolar e seus efeitos : uma avaliação de impacto da política mineira em 2023

Abstract

School tutoring is an educational intervention aimed at recovering the unmastered learning of underperforming students. In 2023, the State Department of Education of Minas Gerais (SEE/MG) launched the School Tutoring Program for Portuguese Language and Mathematics, hiring teachers to conduct classes during the the students' after-school hours. These classes were to employ different teaching methodologies from those used in regular classes and were to be taught in smaller, more homogeneous groups. This study analyzes the effects of the program on learning, measured through standardized educational assessments of approximately 28,000 students. To achieve this, it employs the theory of school effectiveness and educational interventions, with a focus on tutoring. To reduce selection bias among treated students, a quasi-experimental approach (matching) is adopted to create a comparison group, incorporating important control variables such as socioeconomic status (SES) and prior knowledge of the students. The results indicate that the program had a negative effect on the learning of participating students, with variations depending on their characteristics and context.