Intranational Comparative Education: What State Differences in Student Achievement Can Teach Us about Improving Education—the Case of Brazil

What did PISA and TIMSS ever do for us?: the potential of large scale datasets for understanding and improving educational practice

“…This includes educational and vocational opportunities, socioeconomic and socio-political factors, and the opportunities offered to individuals on the basis of their age, ethnicity and gender. It is important that in analysing these systems at a national level we recognise that there are likely to be significant differences between regions and local communities (Carnoy et al, 2017). Bronfenbrenner's theory does not concern the independent and unidirectional effects of context upon human development.…”

A eficácia da formação em gestão para gestores de escolas públicas

“…Estas evidências, associadas às transformações políticas e econômicas ocorridas no Brasil e no mundo que culminaram na Reforma do Estado, providenciaram o alicerce necessário às demandas por escolas mais efetivas (Arlestig; Johansson, 2016;Jones, 2018;Oliveira, 2019). A sociedade brasileira, por sua vez, tem se tornado mais atenta e preocupada à medida que os indicadores da qualidade da educação passaram a ser divulgados e novos atores da sociedade civil começaram a pressionar pela melhoria da aprendizagem nas escolas públicas (Carnoy et al, 2017). As exigências sobre a escola e o diretor se multiplicaram, mas, também, fortaleceram o papel das escolas como organizações sociais e mostraram a necessidade de investimentos na capacitação dos diretores das escolas públicas brasileiras.…”

Local Government Performance: Evaluating Efficiency, Efficacy, and Effectiveness at the Basic Education Level

“…In support of the study by Theunissen et al (2015), Bastos, Bottan, and Cristia (2016) discuss how the expansion in primary schools can collaborate with education coverage, under the condition that there exists better quality in the action taken by the school. Along these lines, Carnoy et al (2017) also debate the influence of sociodemographic conditions on the effectiveness of schools in Brazil, where each state has its own profile and route toward achieving a more effective education.…”

“…The sociodemographic and economic conditions have a positive impact on an efficiency model at the basic education level in the Brazilian municipalities (Carnoy et al, 2017).…”

“…Hence, after discussions concerning local government performance of public education and the points of influence (Adu-Gyamfi, 2014; Aesaert et al, 2015;Carnoy et al, 2017;Olvera & Avellaneda, 2019), we can create a conceptual model to test Brazilian local governments at the basic education level, where sociodemographic and economic conditions could play a role in impacting the efficiency, efficacy, and effectiveness of Brazilian municipalities (Garcia, Prearo, Romero, Secco, & Bassi, 2016;Lauro, Figueiredo, & Wanke, 2016;Matias, Quaglio, Oliveira, Lima, & Bertolin, 2018;Theunissen, Bosma, Verdonk, & Feron, 2015;Vinha, Karino, & Laros, 2016). Finally, in our paper, we are using the following concepts of efficiency, efficacy, and effectiveness (Garcia et al, 2016;Matias et al, 2018;Vinha et al, 2016): (a) Efficiency also means cost-benefit, through which we can produce more with fewer resources -in our case, enrollments, students, and time; (b) Efficacy expresses the achievement of goals -in our case, the approval rate; (c) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Effectiveness demonstrates a higher impact concerning municipality performance -in our case, basic education index.…”