The National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (Inep) released, this Friday (16), the result of the Basic Education Assessment System (Saeb) for 2021, which revealed a decrease in the average of learning in all grades. evaluated.
The Saeb is a set of large-scale external assessments that reflects the levels of learning demonstrated by the assessed students, allowing a diagnosis of Brazilian basic education.
The survey is carried out every two years. Students from the 2nd, 5th, 9th and three years of high school participate.
The Minister of Education, Victor Godoy, said that the MEC predicted the impact that the pandemic would have on basic education and created actions to address the problems.
“The national literacy policy and the national policy for the recovery of basic education learning have helped thousands of municipalities and millions of students to recompose the skills and abilities required for each student, according to the grade in question enrolled. These losses are a result of both the long period of closed schools, as well as the historical difficulties of our educational systems”, he said.
The result of the Saeb is indicative of the quality of Brazilian education, and the decrease in the average, compared to the previous edition, is a clipping of the effect of the pandemic on education. In 2021, 72,000 Brazilian public and private schools were evaluated, with approximately 5.3 million students.
The biggest drop in performance occurred with students in the 2nd year of elementary school, in the Portuguese language subject. In 2019, the average recorded among students was 750 points; in 2021, the average dropped to 725.5. In mathematics, the average went from 750 to 741.9 points.
The lowest averages were recorded in Pará (5th grade), Maranhão (9th grade), Acre and Tocantins (2nd grade) and Amazonas (high school).
According to Inep, one of the important impacts identified in the last two editions of the School Census was the abrupt growth in public school approval rates between 2020 and 2021, when compared to the pre-pandemic period (2019). In elementary school, the percentage of those approved went from 91.7% in 2019 to 98.4% in the first year of the pandemic (2020).
In 2021, the rate dropped to 96.3% (still 4.6 percentage points higher than in 2019). In public high school, approval went from 84.7% in 2019 to 94.4% in 2020. The percentage was reduced to 89.8% in 2021. It is worth noting that the increase in the approval rate is due to adjustments of the National Education Council (CNE) on the approval criteria for basic education during the pandemic and the adoption of the so-called curriculum continuum.
Source: CNN Brasil
