A voz dos egressos: instrumento de avaliação da Universidade Federal da Bahia no processo de gestão

Abstract

The dissertation presented here is intended to develop an instrument to assess the profile, the professional performance of graduates from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), indicating it for use in the institutional self-assessment of this HEI and others that want to use it, with the necessary adaptations. The research also seeks: learn about the history of university management in Brazil, in order to understand its relation to graduates; understand how the process of institutional evaluation took place in Brazil and its relation to graduates; familiarize with the concept of university graduates; and find a way to build, validate and consolidate the questionnaire for consulting with graduates. The collection technique known as the Delphi Method was used to elaborate the construct, in which, through evaluation rounds triggering specialists, between researchers and workers in the areas related to academic management, institutional evaluation and university graduates - population of this research, we validate danded the same, creating a final questionnaire. In the studies, it was found that historically the academic management of HEI are, at first glance, insensitive to their graduates, with no mention of them, until the moment when initiatives that indicated the importance of evaluating HEI began to emerge during the modern and contemporary periods resulting in Brazil in programs such as Paiub, Paru, and finally consolidating itself in Sinaes – already as a government policy, aiming at institutional evaluation. The literature on university graduates confirms the importance of this element as a source of information for the self-assessment of HEI, indicating the effectiveness of both the university and its courses. In the data analysis, the assumption that the UFBA does not have a system to obtain contributions from its graduates was confirmed, as well as the hypothesis that the experts believe in the proposal to allow the participation of graduates in the university's self-assessment. After two rounds of interactions, when the instrument was sent in the first one based on the dimensions of the INEP and related legislation, receiving feedback from experts in which content analysis was performed for qualitative data and descriptive for quantitative data (using the verification of Crombach's alpha coefficient), resulting in a construct for re-examination in the second and final round, which formed the final questionnaire that was approved in all its items above 71%, highlighting the maturity of the instrument. was sent and made available. At the end of the two rounds, which took place between July and October, a questionnaire was consolidated and validated to evaluate the profile and professional performance of UFBA graduates, containing 11 blocks with a total of 38 questions (37 closed, compulsory, and 1 open, optional), which allow us to verify the university's effectiveness in research. The final questionnaire was sent and made available to AC and CPA of UFBA. For future works, it is recommended that new questionnaires be prepared using the Delphi technique, that new studies should seek to gather the impressions and opinions of graduates, to obtain from them their perceptions about the effectiveness of university management and extend this search to the active student body