The evaluation systems developed on the last decade keep a same main objective: to find ways to efficiently improve the quality of the education. Besides identifying results of the pupil's learning, the educational system is also evaluated. In this context, the Sistema Mineiro de Avaliação da Educação Pública (SIMAVE) was instituted in 2000 year by the Secretaria de Estado de Educação. The present study had used multilevel models with the objective to identify the relation between the educational performance, the technic-pedagogical characteristics of the schools and the social-economic profile of the 4th. grade pupils that had made SIMAVE-2000 tests. Searching to investigate the factors that act in the classrooms differentiation in schools had been considered the multilevel models with the hierarchy levels: classroom (level 1) and school (level 2). It was found explanation for a great proportion of the variation of the scores of the classroom.
educational evaluation; hierarchical data; multilevel model
