Proficiência leitora no ensino médio: um estudo dos resultados do Programa de Avaliação da Rede Pública de Educação Básica de Minas Gerais (PROEB)

Abstract

This paper presents the final results of a research taken inside two state public schools in Nova Lima, a town located in the Metropolitan Area of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The purpose of the research was to investigate the results of PROEB Evaluation Program of the public basic schools in Minas Gerais - during the years of 2012 and 2013, checking the levels of reading proficiency of students enrolled in third grade of High School.. The participants in this research were Portuguese Language teachers and students enrolled in third grade at two Public High Schools. In order to carry out this study, we have opted for bibliographic, as well as desk and field researches. Data collection was held through interviews, questionnaires and participant observation. Theoretical foundations came from the contribution of several authors who discuss about language, as well as public policies, internal and external evaluation, such as: Bakhtin, (1953/2011), Rojo (2004; 2009; 2012; 2013), Cafiero (2005), Dias e Novais (2009), Castro (2009), Gomes (2010; 2012; 2014; 2015), Coscarelli (2011; 2013), Lorenzi e Pádua (2012), Coscarelli e Cafiero (2013), Martins (2013), Gatti (2013), Bridon e Neitzel (2014), Bonamino (2015), among others. The present study is a research that stimulates works in the field of language, as well as on educational evaluation, as from the present context of expansion of SIMAVE the evaluation system of Public Education in Minas Gerais. The results showed the urgency of investments in teacher training, in plans, projects, actions and policies in Reading teaching, in order to improve High School education, providing a better students development in all reading habilities which are essential for their schooling, as well as their full right to an emancipatory public education, in all levels.