Uso da estatística para entender os indicadores de qualidade da educação pública de Alagoas

Abstract

This dissertation aims to discuss and analyze the evolution of public education in the State of Alagoas, showing the tools used by the government entities, studying the methodology of collecting, tabulating and organizing data with the help of Statistics, observing and discussing results in elementary school education (6th to 9th grade) and secondary education (1st to 3rd grade), presented through graphs and tables. The study is justified by the concern with the low performance rates that students have been presenting in the latest results of the Basic Education Development Index (IDEB) and by the need to help teachers, principals and the academic community in general to understand and identify critical points, so that states, cities and the federal government can identify patterns and trends that indicate where and how public policies can intervene to improve the quality of education. In this study, a bibliographical research was carried out on scientific articles, books and official federal government documents for the theoretical basis, a data collection on the INEP portal was carried out as well in order to create graphs and tables of the results obtained by schools in Alagoas. The results reveal that there must be concern among the competent authorities regarding the evolution of the indexes presented in this study.