Avaliação, ciclos e qualidade do Ensino Fundamental: Uma relação a ser construída

Abstract

The text focuses on the implications of cycle-based schooling organization - which aims at democratizing education - on learning assessments. The analysis is based on typical elements of dominant tendencies in learning assessment practices and on contributions from the literature on the theme. In order to contextualize the range of the implantation of cycles in Brazilian territory, it divulges data that allow us to assay the distribution of schools and enrollments in these cycles, according to their administrative dependence.