Meta-avaliação: caminhos para o aperfeiçoamento de práticas avaliativas no Sistema de Ensino Naval

Abstract

This thesis consists of a research on the evaluation concerning the teachingin the BrazilianNavy, which is not included in National System of Higher Education Evaluation (SINAES) but has a methodology for evaluating the Naval Education System, developed in 2005 and used as tool to assess the quality of training of military and educational institutions. The improvement of evaluation practices in the BrazilianNavy has been fueled by studies and research on meta-evaluation. This study analyzes the contributions of the evaluation of teaching-learning process for the revisions of thecourses conducted at two centers Instruction, the Center for Instruction Admiral Sylvio de Camargo and the Center for Instruction Admiral Milcíades Portela Alves. The main authors that make up the theoretical framework of the research are Worthen, Sandersand Fitzpatrick (2004), Dias Sobrinho (2003) and studies of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (JCSEE),submitted by Yarbrough et al (2011),and Elliot (2011) to the theme meta-evaluation. This is anevaluative study, a meta-evaluation,in combinationwith the methodology of action research. The data collection methods used were interviews with educators who work in the supervision and conduct of the evaluation of courses squares of the Marine Corps and document analysis. These data reveal that changes and curricular revisions are proposed with few subsidies coming from the evaluation reports. There isn’ta close relationship between the measurement of the quality of training by means of post-school education, and reviews of the courses evaluatedyet. In actionresearch, during theexperimentalprogramto trainevaluators, it was possible to discuss strategies and gather information that is useful to rethink the processes of evaluation prevailing in BrazilianNavy. The results of theintervention, through the training of those involved in the evaluation process, reinforce the importance of improving the conduct of post-school education and to review the procedures established based on benchmarks for quality assessment -utility, feasibility, ethics and accuracy. The conclusion resulting from this research is that the preparation of evaluators contributed to greaterparticipation and involvement of military organizations responsible for the assessment of trainees, to reduce errors in completing the evaluation instruments and sending these out of time and provided an opportunity to reflect on knowledge and practice of assessing and meta-evaluationnot only in the Brazilian Navy, as in other civil and military institutions.