Para uma avaliação de larga escala multidimensional

Inserted into the research project funded by the Center of education – Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Level Personnel, “The quality of public school: a longitudinal study for the sustainability of shared responsibility”, and based on the observation that the large-scale assessment currently practiced, a smaller set of goals than those of the training matrix developed in schools is involved. Although the other goals are also important for students’ education, this article brings to discussion the need for an external and more truthful evaluation to the work developed in schools; that, in order to consolidate as such, cannot escape the multidimensionality of the object to be assessed. Therefore, the large-scale assessment processes are discussed, claiming that students’ learning and the quality offered by schools cannot be assessed without constructing a multidimensional evaluation.