The class differences: a reflection about the external assessment

Abstract

The objective of this study was to reflect on large-scale assessments in Brazilian public schools as one of the problems that pervade the unequal reality from the division of classes, in which the Assessing State seeks through these external assessments to support neoliberal logics. Thus, from 1990 onwards, public policies deepened in a common core: the conception and purpose in mercantile axes Gomes and Melo (2018) which seeks to align with market logics, appropriating external assessment for its maintenance. Therefore, this work emphasizes the external assessment as the hegemonic apparatus of the bourgeois State. The research was carried out with a bibliographic study focused on authors whose discuss the neoliberal assessments and agendas in Brazil, among them respectively, Afonso (2000); Laurentino and Diogenes (2013); Rabelo, Segundo and Jimenez (2009), Santos, Pereira and Mello (2019). Furthermore, the research enabled a critical reflection on the debate on External Assessments in Brazil, which reduces the appropriation of historically accumulated content for the emancipation of the working class.