Instrumento de avaliação de cursos lato-sensu destinados à formação continuada de professores ofertados na modalidade de Educação à distância pela UFAL

Abstract

This study investigates the institutional evaluation of courses in the broad sense, based on the discussions related to the educational policies of continuing education of teachers through distance learning (ODL) and creating their own evaluation instrument for specialization courses. Uses as a research field assessment practices developed at the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) presenting a proposal for assessment for specialized courses HEI teacher training offered through distance education mode. It assumes that the specialization courses in distance education mode UFAL are evaluated only partially the bureaucratic point of view, considering the lack of an institutional assessment policy and assessment tools appropriate for this level of education. Its thesis statement that one of the procedures that can be developed to evaluate the academic quality of specialized courses for the training of teachers offered through distance mode of UFAL and support the institutional evaluation is the creation of an evaluation instrument itself. The overall objective is to discuss the institutional evaluation of courses in the broad sense of UFAL proposing the use of an assessment instrument itself. Search with specific objects: systematize the scenario of educational policies drawn to the broad sense postgraduate courses offered in distance learning mode for the continuing education of teachers; analyze the legal parameters and their weaknesses as refers to the regulation of procedures for evaluating the broad sense postgraduate courses; discuss the institutional assessment policy developed by Dean of Research and Post-Graduation (Propep) on sensu post-graduation courses for the continuing education of teachers in distance education mode UFAL; and institutional evaluation instruments drawn up for the broad sense courses for the continuing education of teachers in distance education mode UFAL. The methodological approach of the research part of a qualitative and quantitative look guided the principle of applied research evaluative nature. The conclusion of the study presents the evaluation instrument can results and analysis of the indicators discussing the relationship between the quantitative result that indicators can reach and qualitative impact that these indicators point in relation to the academic quality of post-courses graduation courses toward subsidizing the institutional assessment and the development of educational policies in the area.