dc.description.abstract | Faced the ample theme of educational evaluation, this research makes a cut and focuses on evaluation of large-scale and on management of education, specifically education management at the municipal level, considering it as important mediator between schools and educational policies. It considers that near cities, situated in a particular region, articulates into associations, thus it delimits the Municipal Association of Encosta Superior do Nordeste da Serra Gaúcha - AMESNE. The origin of the study is based on personal experience and research group connected to the Centre of Education attended during the Masters Course. The central research question is: How does Municipal Secretary of Education of the AMESNE appropriate and translate the data from the External Evaluation of Primary Schools to the municipal schools? The study uses as the locus of observation, data collection, seven cities of the Association (Caxias do Sul, Bento Gonçalves, Farroupilha, Nova Prata, Guaporé, Nova Araçá and Paraí) which have Municipal System of Education, since it is assumed, based on the literature, that the creation of the municipal school system is an indicator in political autonomy of local governments. The work consisted in an exploratory study when it had been used questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, observation of teaching meetings and document analysis. The main findings were that among these seven cities, only four of them work with the results of large-scale evaluation, when conducting pedagogical meetings with the directive staff of the institutions. One of the cities surveyed, Guaporé, created its constituted system of management in order the Municipal Secretary of Education can manage this whole process of external evaluations more efficiently. Finally the paper makes reference to another important fact that was established during the methodology used in data collection. At this point, it was evidenced a more detailed work with the evaluation promoted by the state instance, according to the political alignment of local government. | en |