Formulation and Management of a Policy: democratic impasses in the SEAP-RS

Salerno, Guilene; Luce, Maria Beatriz

doi:10.1590/2175-623684863

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THEMATIC SECTION: EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND EVALUATION POLICIES • Educ. Real. 43 (4) • Oct-Dec 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-623684863 copy

Formulation and Management of a Policy: democratic impasses in the SEAP-RS

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Abstract:

This article presents an analysis of the State Participative Evaluation System (SEAP-RS) formulation at the Rio Grande do Sul State Secretariat of Education, during the 2011-2014 government period. Institutional movements, concepts and assumptions of this institutional evaluation policy are examined. Dilemmas and challenges of/in managing such process were drawn from narratives and documents that illustrate the formation of the agenda and the regulatory norms. Two impasses are highlighted: the discourse on democratic management in face of a centralized policy formulation; and the demand for immediate responses from public officers in face of the new participatory evaluation requirements.

Keywords:
Institutional Evaluation; Democratic management; Policy Formulation

SAERS	SEAP-RS
Management
Government policy, with intermittent and periodic changes; creation focused on productivity, based on managerialism and performativity (WERLE; KOETZ, 2012WERLE, Flávia Obino Corrêa; KOETZ, Carmen Maria. Trajetória do Sistema de Avaliação do Rendimento Escolar do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul. Ensaio, Rio de Janeiro, v. 20, n. 77, p. 677-700, out./dez. 2012.). Focus on student achievement of elementary school, considering tests of Portuguese Language and Mathematics, the principal’s and teachers’ management, per school, consequently. Two-year cycles, but discontinuous, mainly census in state schools; on occasion, also comprising samples of municipal and private schools. Created and administered by contracted evaluation agencies.	Proposed as a State policy with systemic creation, focusing on the institution and on individuals and providing analyses of dimensions, structures, goals, relationships, activities of different instances and public facilities of the state education. Census and annual cycles in all network of state schools and their management body. Developed and managed by the SEDUC team, it required collective and participatory evaluation throughout the Network unit (schools, CRE, and SEDUC).
External Evaluation
Contracted to produce instruments and reports of results, in addition to the administration of tests. Reports focused on quantitative results without context analysis and data interpretation.	Contracted as a longitudinal, quantitative, and qualitative research project for monitoring and advising the institutionalization process, aiming at legitimation, mobilization, and interpretative-demonstrative analysis of results.
Structure
Syllabus focusing on skills and abilities according to the SAEB syllabi, published as Lições do Rio Grande [Lessons from Rio Grande] (2009).	In situ analysis and verification of Dimensions, Institutional Indicators and Descriptors, instrumentalized by SEAP-RS Notebooks.

Actors	Belonging structure	Influence in the agenda formulation	Influence in the policy formulation	Influence in the policy reformulation stage
Governor	State Public Authority and Leaders of the Network	High	Low	Low
Secretary		High	High	Average
SEDUC Directors		Average/High	Average/High	Average
Advisors (SEAP-RS)		Average	High	High
CRE		Null	Low	High
State Council of Education		Null	Null	Null
Legislature		Average	Null	Null
School Councils	Schools and Local Community	Null	Null	High
Students and Parents		Null	Null	High
Directors, Faculty, and Staff of Schools		Null	Null	High
Hired Researchers	External Evaluation and Funding	Null	Null	Average
World Bank	External Evaluation and Funding	Average/High	Null	Low
CPERS Syndicate	Social Interest Groups	Null	Low	Average
Media	Social Interest Groups	Null	Average	Average

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - Faculdade de Educação Avenida Paulo Gama, s/n, Faculdade de Educação - Prédio 12201 - Sala 914, 90046-900 Porto Alegre/RS Brasil, Tel.: (55 51) 3308-3268, Fax: (55 51) 3308-3985 - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil
E-mail: educreal@ufrgs.br

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[1] Guilene Salerno is PhD in Education, Master in Social and Institutional Psychology, and holds a teaching degree in Psychology from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), and a degree in Psychology from Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). She is currently Teaching Assistant of the City Council of Education of Porto Alegre and researcher linked to the Núcleo de Estudos de Políticas e Gestão da Educação [Center for Study on Education Policies and Management] of the Faculty of Education. E-mail: guilenesalerno@gmail.com