BENITE, Maurílio. Best administrative and pedagogical practices that contribute to the performance in Mathematics of elementary school students of public municipal schools: data analysis of the Basic Education Development Index -IDEB and exploratory research in municipalities of high socioeconomic level. 330f. Tese (Doutorado) -School of Economics, Business Administration and Accounting at Ribeirão Preto (FEA-RP), University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, 2020. There is evidence in national and

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... nternational scientific literature that studying is a key variable in determining the economic progress of individuals and nations, as well as a variety of non-economic benefits: improved health, reduced crime, greater social cohesion, greater democratic participation, and so on. This Thesis research identifies good administrative and pedagogical scholar practices that can contribute to improve student's performance on elementary school in centralized mathematics assessments. For that, a DEA BCC Bootstrapping Two Stage model was used, followed by quintile trend analysis for the available variables and a Principal Component Analysis, for 3,330 Brazilian municipal schools of high socioeconomic level, in order to identify municipal public schools in the Elementary School II that demonstrated efficiency in students' performance between years 2011 and 2015. Based on achieved results from the quantitative method, field research was carried out with eight municipal public schools, with the application of semi-structured interviews with school directors, Mathematics teachers and Municipal Secretaries of Education. Based on the analysis of the variables identified by the DEA BCC Bootstrapping Two Stage models, quintile trend analysis and Principal Component Analysis, and their subsequent comparison with the most relevant variables for efficiency in Mathematics teaching verified on field research, it was possible to identify good administrative practices and that can be replicated in schools in order to increase students' mathematics performance and eventually replicate these practices in poor performance schools. The good practices identified for the variables that improve performance are especially related to the social environment and the support of the students' family, the effective delivery of the program content planned for the school year and the good use of class time by teachers, quality the textbooks used by students and their personal interest in reading and studying.