PROPOSAL FOR FOLLOW-UP, EVALUATION AND
IMPROVEMENT OF POST-GRADUATE PROGRAMS OF A FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
Name: TALITA FERREIRA MÓLL VOLPONI
Publication date: 07/05/2019
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| TACIANA DE LEMOS DIAS | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| NEYVAL COSTA REIS JR. | Co advisor * |
| RODRIGO DE ALVARENGA ROSA | Internal Examiner * |
| TACIANA DE LEMOS DIAS | Advisor * |
| VALDEMAR LACERDA JUNIOR | External Examiner * |
Summary: The activities developed by CAPES are fundamental to the expansion and consolidation of the stricto sensu post-graduation courses in Brazil, corroborating with the development and improvement of the quality of the courses offered by the universities. Evaluation plays an important role in the decision-making framework of an institution, providing information for different actors, at different levels and at different levels. With public policy evaluations, and considering the responsibility of IFES to provide free quality training, institutional framework for the achievement of goals for the promotion of quality teaching, guaranteeing its purpose. The present research focused on the actions developed by the Pro-Rectory of Research and Post-Graduation (PRPPG) of the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in relation to the process of evaluation and recognition of postgraduate courses carried out by the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Level Personnel (CAPES). The main objective was to describe the fundamental aspects for the follow-up and improvement of post-graduation in the scope of the UFES, in order to achieve the desired results in CAPES assessments and higher quality of the institution's Postgraduate Programs (PPG). In order to reach the proposed objective, it was necessary to understand the UFES postgraduate scenario from the last CAPES (2013-2016) four-year evaluation; understand the current evaluation process of the postgraduate studies carried out by CAPES and its trends; identify the initiatives for the improvement of Post-graduation by the PRPPG of UFES, from the Project for Improvement of Post-Graduation (PROPOS). In its methodology, the research was delineated by its applied nature and qualitative approach, has bibliographical and also documentary character. The research scenario was the Postgraduate Programs of UFES and the subjects involved teachers who had already acted as evaluators in previous evaluation processes within CAPES. The aim was to contribute to the administrative management processes inherent to the reality of the PRPPG, with emphasis on the standardization of the PPG monitoring processes. The results showed that the monitoring of PPG by external consultants who have already participated in the evaluation process of CAPES, helped to minimize the difficulty in understanding the indicators / targets proposed by the area document, made available by CAPES as a parameter for its evaluation systematics. From the analyzed data it was possible to elaborate a proposal of instruction that normalizes the activities of the PRPPG regarding the monitoring of the PPG, besides, it was created a summary using the main recommendations given by the consultants professors, constituting the technical product of the research.
