Indicadores para avaliação dos cursos de Pós-graduação Lato Sensu da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

Recognizing the importance of the lato sensu postgraduate courses to the formation of the higher education professionals in the country, whose requirements tend to grow, demanding a constant improvement, the present work intends to develop indicators to evaluate quality and efficiency in the management of the specialization courses at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Through a theoretical study based, primarily, on the Multidimensional Paradigm of the Educational Administration, proposed by SANDER, a mixed methods research has been developed, starting from the survey of information from lato sensu postgraduate courses, with the Coordinators and Vice-Coordinators, board members, teachers and learners, in addition to the analysis of the formal characteristics of these courses. The self-financed on-site courses were subjected to this research, from 2011 to 2015 (during the term of the Resolution nº 028/2011 of the Administrative Council of the UFRN), starting from the point of view of its participants. As result, indicators were pointed to compose a quality assessment of the management of specialization courses at UFRN, considering criteria such as efficiency, efficacy, effectiveness and relevance.