Spatial distribution of Ideb for the initial years of municipal elementary school in Paraná: an analysis of educational assessment

Abstract

The work presents a study on the Basic Education Development Index (IDEB), which is an educational indicator that relates learning through performance assessments and school flow. The IDEB is calculated with school approval data, obtained from the School Census and also using performance averages that are applied by the National Basic Education Assessment System (SAEB) and Prova Brasil. For carrying out a discussion about the IDEB values in the municipalities of the state of Paraná, a dataset were collected referring to the initial years of municipal elementary education in Paraná, using the average, from the first to the fifth year. For the years 2005 to 2021 the results showed which there are municipalities with higher values. In this period, an effort to improve the values of the IDEB in the schools of the municipalities was identified because a tendency of increment in the analyzed spatial time series. The results indicated that the IDEB appears in the context of school evaluation as a managerial instrument to verify results and used to classify schools and direct resources based on meritocracy.