Repercussões das avaliações externas no cotidiano dos gestores escolares

Abstract

This paper is part of a postdoctoral research conducted in 2023, which had thegeneral objective of understanding the repercussions on the daily lives of schoolmanagers in the face of external evaluations in the state of Minas Gerais,southeast of Brazil. The methodology chosen was qualitative. Themethodological path was to search the website of the Catalog of Theses andDissertations of CAPES (Brazilian Foundation of the Ministry of Education) thepublications with the descriptor external evaluation. In the second moment, it had the purpose of listening to the school managers. The application of theonline questionnaire collected the answers of ten school managers. The resultsof the research found that external evaluations are necessary, but the way theyare carried out has negatively impacted the daily life of schools. Four aspectswere evidenced in the face of external evaluations: the intensification of themanager's work, the lack of appreciation of the process by the schoolcommunity, the blaming of the school in the face of the results and theincompatibility of exercising democratic management.