Banca de DEFESA: JOSÉ JORGE SEVERINO

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STUDENT : JOSÉ JORGE SEVERINO
DATE: 07/04/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/sdr-siev-vru
TITLE:

NON-QUALIFIED TEACHERS AND RELATED AREAS TEACHING: EFFECTS ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BRAZILIAN SCHOOLS

KEY WORDS:

Non-qualified teacher; Related areas; School performance.

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Economia
SUMMARY:

The definition of “non-qualified teacher” is derived from the incompatibility between the teacher's academic background and the teaching stage of education or subject in which he teaches. The literature on non-qualified teachers starts from the hypothesis that teaching a subject without having the specific background to do so, has negative effects on school performance. However, this hypothesis has not considered the fact that teachers may have acquired skills and abilities to teach in areas related to their undergraduate course from two other sources, namely: the broad areas of knowledge and the curricular components of their major courses. Under these two new perspectives, plus the traditional idea already established about non-qualified teachers, the objective of this Dissertation is to analyze how this profile of teachers affects school performance, using as outcome the average scores in Portuguese and Mathematics of the 9th grade of the public schools that participated in the SAEB, during the period from 2009 to 2019. To achieve this objective, three approaches were carried out: i) Restricted Analysis (AR), considering as non-qualified teacher the one who teaches in Portuguese/Mathematics without having specific college degree for these subjects; ii) Analysis of Related Areas 1 (AC1), in which the non-qualified teacher is the one who teaches in Portuguese/Mathematics without at least having majored in some course in the broad area of knowledge of these disciplines; and iii) Analysis of Related Areas 2 (AC2), which consists of the situation in which the teacher is considered non-qualified when teaching in Portuguese/Mathematics without the curricular components of their major course including contents that provide skills and abilities to teach in these subjects. The empirical strategy employed consisted of estimating Quantile Regression models for Panel Data. The results show that the schools in the lower quantiles, in almost all cases, are the ones that have their scores more affected by the percentage of non-qualified teachers. In addition, this effect is intensified as these professionals teach Portuguese and Mathematics with a background that does not fall within the broad areas of knowledge or the curricular components of these same subjects. Another important conclusion is that the role of non-qualified teachers cannot be resolved in the short term. Therefore, alternative measures must be oriented to mitigate the effects of these professionals on the performance of schools, as less qualified teachers, since they do not have full mastery of the content taught, may be less rigorous about students' mistakes, promoting them to the next step without having assimilated the content properly. As a solution, considering that the further away from specific background the more negative are the effects of non-qualified teachers on school performance, the results of this study show that the gradual approaches carried out here (AR, AC1 and AC2) can be used as an allocation criteria of teachers to classes, in order to ensure that students are followed by professionals who, even though they are not teaching in their major subject, at some point in their higher education have had contact with subjects appropriate to the teaching of Portuguese and Mathematics.

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