Impact of PARFOR on Public Elementary Schools

Abstract

This study assesses the impact of the Plano Nacional de Formação de Professores da Educação Básica (PARFOR) in public schools. Operationally, the universe of PARFOR was reduced to Pedagogia courses and, its results, to the elementary school. The differences in differences (DD) method was used to assess whether there was an increase in the number of pedagogos, working in the benefited public schools, as well as an improvement in the Índice de Desenvolvimento da Educação Básica (IDEB) of those same schools. The results showed that PARFOR promoted a small increase in the number of pedagogos in school units, but about IDEB, the results were not conclusive.