Análise de desempenho em provas de habilidades de leitura e escrita com escolares da educação fundamental I: panorama educacional pré-pandêmico à Covid-19

Abstract

The Brazilian educational system faces challenges in literacy, impacting performance and equality among students. Current data demonstrate a low proficiency in reading and writing, especially in black and low-income students. However, this reality was aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic, but such issues were already latent. This is a documentary study, with data collected between 2016 and 2019, which describes literacy in public schools in the early grades. The results presented point to a worrying situation in terms of literacy performance, even before Covid-19. When considering the global sample of 285 students in the first year, we note that 181 students, representing 64%, did not reach an adequate level of proficiency. In the second year, among 338 students, representing 57% of the sample, a similar unsatisfactory performance was observed. This research emphasizes the need to reassess educational approaches and implement targeted strategies to ensure that all children have reading proficiency, including the pandemic as a new temporary impact factor, but not the only one, thus obtaining a solid and permanent basis for the future educational success.