The Sistema Permanente de Avaliação da Educação Básica do Ceará (Spaece): thirty years of history

Abstract

Regarding educational evaluation, we note that government officials and managers have been promoting evaluation policies that provide mechanisms for monitoring, measuring and controlling the quality of education offered by public educational institutions. With that, the state of Ceará, following a national and international trend, created in 1992 its own external evaluation system inspired by the Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB). In this context, this work aims to present the trajectory of the Sistema Permanente de Avaliação da Educação Básica do Ceará (Spaece), discussing its conception and implementation as a public policy of evaluation of the state over thirty years of history. In this way, we anchor our reflections on studies on the policy cycle (Ball, 2014). In order to meet this objective, methodologically, we proceeded with a descriptive and basic research, with a qualitative approach, in which we adopted procedures characteristic of a bibliographical and documental research. Among the results found, we found that Spaece has been expanding and undergoing constant changes, becoming a public evaluation policy that acts strategically by producing educational information that supports decision-making aimed at formulating, reformulating and monitoring educational policies with focus on improving the education indicators offered by the public school system in Ceará.