Abstract
This article aims to reflexively analyze the impacts associated to the school management external assessment, known as the Programa Nova Escola, implemented in the public basic education in Rio de Janeiro State. To achieve the research’s goal, participating actors (those being assessed and those conducting the assessment) were given a voice in the investigated context, in order to identify possible changes – induced by the first cycle (2000–2003) of the external assessment of the “school management axis” – in thinking and practicing management in the schools being part of the network. The topic is presented through a short description of the assessment process performed; a concise presentation of the organizational structure set up for the implementation of the assessment; the explanation of the methodology used to achieve the research; and a presentation of the main results of the survey.
Evaluation; School management; Nova Escola