Percepção discente quanto às mudanças implementadas após avaliação do curso de fisioterapia em uma instituição de ensino superior

Abstract

This study aimed to identify student perceptions regarding changes implemented after review by the State Board of Education of Alagoas in the course of physical therapy in 2009. An evaluation process is often unpleasant, always creates insecurity, fears, dissatisfactions, conflicts and suspicions regarding the authenticity or listed demands. On the other hand, generates knowledge that enables plan actions aimed at overcoming difficulties. This is a correlational study and comparison participants, they were considered two main sets of variables: background (student perception) and consequent (didactic and pedagogical organization, faculty, and infrastructure). Participants were 159 students from a public university of Maceió-AL, 27 (17%) men and 132 (83%) women, aged between 17 and 38 years (M = 21.86, SD = 3.54 . The participants answered a structured questionnaire that measures the degree of student perceptions regarding changes implemented; and provide their sociodemographic characteristics. Revealed a low student perception of the changes implemented by university in surveyed dimensions: pedagogical-didactic organization (mean = 2.80), faculty (mean = 3.27) and infra-structure (mean = 1.97), resulting in low level of satisfaction. This reality demonstrates the necessity of establishing deploy a disclosure policyand student awareness to the changes implemented in the course.