| dc.description.abstract | This research aimed to construct a set of performance indicators that were calculated, analyzed an then evaluated by managers of educational institutions, as excellence standards through benchmarking. From this, the identification of the effectiveness of the participating institutions was made possible, providing them with decision making and implementation of improvements, through self assessment and benchmarking of other education institutions which took part in the research. For this research different phases were needed. In making the initial review, a set of indicators to support the management was identified, which served as the basis for the second stage that corresponded to data collection, covering the period 2007 and 2008, and subsequent calculation of the indicators (the sample included 23 local public, 5 public state schools, both within the cities of Porto Alegre and Sao Leopoldo, and 11 private institutions in the metropolitan area). In the third phase of the research, results were analyzed so t | en |
