Atratividade pedagógica, autonomia escolar e descentralização geram melhores desempenhos escolares? Um estudo avaliativo do Projeto de Inovação Pedagógica no RN, no período de 2013 a 2019

Abstract

In economic literature, one of the ways of fostering economic growth and development is the promotion of education when decentralizing actions and resources. One of the examples of programs developed to accomplish the former goals is the Pedagogic Innovation Program (Programa de Inovação Pedagógica, PIP), that consists of government policies on educational matters created by the Government Body of the State of Rio Grande do Norte, having The World Bank as a partner, aiming to solve the low attractiveness of school activities by proposing customized projects to each school, in a decentralized fashion. As a way of verifying the effectiveness of the program, the goal of this research is to evaluate the impact of the PIP on the pass rates of its intended audience, that is, schools housing students in 6th grades of elementary school and also in the first year of high school. To evaluate the impact of the program, there has been an estimation of a data model on a GLS panel with fixed effects, on a school-year level, consulting three databases: a) Microdata from the school census; b) consolidated data from the National Institute of Educational Research and Studies (INEP); c) administrative and processual data from the PIP. The results obtained that the program had had results in the target audience, being greater in the first year of the intervention, diluting this effect over time.