The meaning of the student performance evaluation in a competency-based curriculum / Os sentidos da avaliação do desempenho do estudante em um currículo por competência

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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The purpose of this study was to analyze the student learning evaluation process in an integrated competency-based curriculum in the Nursing and Medical Courses at the Medical School of Marilia (FAMEMA). This analysis focuses particularly on the Professional Practice Evaluation Exercise (PPEE), in which the student performance evaluation falls back on cognitive aspects, abilities, and attitudes. A qualitative research was performed with the objectives of describing the PPEE evaluative process in the area of individual care, in the different series of the Nursing and Medical Courses at FAMEMA; analyzing the student performance evaluation, comparing it with the curriculum prescribed and presented to the teachers; and analyzing the convergent and divergent tendencies in relation to the meanings of the evaluative process presented in the prescribed curriculum, the one presented to the teachers, and those molded and in put into action by the teachers. There were 694 registrations of the evaluation instruments of the Nursing and Medical Courses that were analyzed and 16 observations of the PPEEs that were filmed and transcribed. The documental analysis was carried out with the projects and manuals of FAMEMA, which were submitted to the Interpretation of the Meaning Method, based on hermeneutic-dialectic principles. PPEE revealed itself as a strategy that reinforces the potentiality of the evaluation. However, it demands a paradigm rupture from the teachers and students concerning the evaluation. The presence of different evaluation concepts can still be verified, from the most traditional to the most critical, reflexive, negotiated, committed to learning, and to the professional practice. In PPEE, the experienced evaluation isnt always an expression of that proposed in the prescribed curriculum and in that presented to the teachers: either it is presented linked to the referential behaviorist or to the competence constructivist. Therefore, a collective reflection on the pedagogic practices, especially the evaluation practices, is needed, by means of a process of successive approaches that allows the academic community of FAMEMA to rebuild and rethink the forms of educational work organization, with emphasis on the evaluative process. To do this, it will be necessary to promote an alliance between the Nursing and Medical Courses in which the Political-Pedagogic Projects of the courses express the referential of education and the adopted dialogical evaluation. It will still be necessary to promote the reconstruction of the student performance evaluation instruments, as well as the action of the teacher in the PPEE

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nursing education educação baseada em competências curriculum educação médica avaliação educacional competency-based education educational evaluation educação em enfermagem currículo medical education

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