Settings of management of municipal schools in Brazil: The contextual questionnaire of prova Brasil

Abstract

This article discusses the results of a study that characterized management settings in municipal schools in Brazil, based on principals’ responses to the contextual questionnaire of Prova Brasil 2015. The purpose of this study was to analyze the potential of the practices reported in the instrument to contribute to the democratization of education. After the identification of limits in the constructs of the items, this instrument brought information on: profile data, education and professional trajectories; participation of families and other community members in the management of schools; initiatives that affect the access and permanence of students in school with guaranteed learning. We used the IBM SPSS Statistics-20 software, a program designed to perform statistical analysis.