Girlene Ribeiro de JESUS and Rosilene Cândida de ARAÚJO
RPGE – Revista on line de Política e Gestão Educacional, Araraquara, v. 28, n. 00, e023013, 2024. e-ISSN: 1519-9029
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22633/rpge.v28i00.19089 3
Introduction
Between 2016 and 2022, Brazil experienced significant political changes that brought
different and diverse impacts on the lives of its population. Since 2016, the country has
undergone periods of drastic changes on one hand and stagnation on the other, across various
sectors, from the economy to education. In the field of education, this scenario was particularly
intense. Between 2016 and 2022, during the administrations of Michel Temer (August 31, 2016,
to December 31, 2018) and Jair Messias Bolsonaro (January 1, 2019, to December 31, 2022),
education underwent significant changes. Under the government of Michel Temer, intense
transformations occurred, while during Jair Messias Bolsonaro's administration, there were
periods of stagnation and, at times, setbacks.
Arguably, the main change in education during Michel Temer's government was the
approval in December 2017 of the Common National Curricular Base, known as the BNCC
(Brasil, 2018a). The approval of the BNCC brought along some "guidelines" for the education
systems and the federal government itself, as indicated by the Resolution of the National
Council of Education, CNE/CP No. 2, of December 22, 2017 (Brasil, 2017a), which establishes
and guides the implementation of the BNCC, making such guidelines mandatory. Among them,
the following can be highlighted: (a) by 2020, revise the curricula of basic education, both in
public and private networks, in order to align them with the BNCC, and (b) by 2018, align the
reference matrices of national assessments and exams in primary education with the BNCC.
In this context, in 2018, aiming to comply with what is advocated by Resolution
CNE/CP No. 2, of December 22, 2017 (Brasil, 2017a), regarding the alignment of the reference
matrices of national assessments and exams in basic education with the BNCC, as well as
considering the revisions for the alignment of state curricula with the base, the National Institute
for Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP), an autarchy linked to the Ministry
of Education (MEC), began a process of reviewing the Basic Education Assessment System
(SAEB). Following the revision conducted in 2018, several changes were planned and
announced for the subsequent edition of the SAEB, which took place in 2019.
Until the year 2017, the SAEB administered tests in the Portuguese language, focusing
on reading and comprehension, and in mathematics, aimed at problem-solving. Additionally,
contextual questionnaires were administered to students, teachers, and principals. The assessed
grades included the 5th and 9th grades of elementary school, as well as the 3rd grade of high
school. The SAEB consisted of the National School Performance Assessment (ANRESC),
known as Prova Brasil, and the National Assessment of Basic Education (ANEB). While Prova