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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Self-ratings of Memory in Parkinson’s Disease: Relation to Depressive Symptoms, Personality and Executive Functions

Bégin Galarneau, Marie-Ève 16 May 2019 (has links)
Accurate self-assessment of memory is important for everyday function. Self-rating accuracy may be affected by several factors in aging, and especially in Parkinson’s disease (PD), but these putative influences have rarely been examined in the same study to determine their relative importance and the potential interactions among them. We examined self-ratings of memory in healthy older adults and people with PD. We used two metamemory scales: the relatively comprehensive Multifactorial Memory Questionnaire (MMQ) and the more brief Structured Telephone Interview for Dementia Assessment (STIDA). We took into account three key influencing variables: depression, personality variables (especially neuroticism and conscientiousness), and executive functions. The MMQ ability scale and the STIDA were moderately correlated for controls whereas this relationship failed to reach significance for patients after a Holm–Bonferroni correction. The difference between these correlations in the two groups was statistically significant. In both groups, objective memory performance and self-assessment of memory (assessed by MMQ ability, MMQ Satisfaction, and STIDA) were not significantly correlated. Conscientiousness and the interactions of group with conscientiousness and executive function were the strongest predictors of memory self-assessment as measured by MMQ ability. Our results suggest that memory self-assessment is not accurate, and is better predicted by conscientiousness and executive functions than by memory itself. Clinicians should know about the potential lack of accuracy of memory self-assessment when screening for memory impairment. Memory concerns reported by patients may not translate in objective memory impairment. At the opposite, confidence in memory may not reflect normal memory functioning.
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Portfólios de produção textual na escola: relações sujeito-escrita e sujeito-instituição / Portfolios of texts at school: the subject-writing and subject-institution relationships

Moraes, Luiza Guimarães de 20 March 2019 (has links)
Esta dissertação se desenvolveu com o propósito de investigar as relações sujeito-escrita e sujeito-instituição escolar estabelecidas por alunos do Ensino Fundamental 2 (F2) quando postos sistematicamente em situação de autoavaliação, escrevendo sobre a própria escrita. A partir da análise de portfólios de produção textual compostos por alunos ano a ano durante o F2, objetivou-se investigar de que maneiras as respostas dos sujeitos ao chamado institucional escolar de tomar a palavra sobre a própria escrita e sobre a própria aprendizagem impactam a constituição do sujeito enquanto escritor. Buscou-se mostrar tipos de respostas geradas pela tensão posta na situação de autoavaliação; deslocamentos dos sujeitos em relação à forma como respondem à instituição; e impactos na escrita dos alunos pelo processo de extradição do sujeito promovido pela escola. O corpus da pesquisa foi composto por cartas elaboradas pelos alunos para seus professores, em que comentam a própria escrita e os próprios textos. A análise se fundamentou nos conceitos de diálogo, enunciação, excedente de visão e polifonia, propostos por Bakhtin, além de valer-se de conceitos vindos da Análise do Discurso: heterogeneidade e metaenunciação (Authier-Revuz, 1990, 1998; Possenti, 2002, 2009). A partir dos resultados obtidos, foi possível concluir que o embate entre sujeito e instituição, na situação de (auto)avaliação, gera diferentes tensões que, mais ou menos intensas, promovem diferentes respostas dos sujeitos: (1) a repetição do discurso institucional; (2) o domínio da metalinguagem escolar e o posicionamento no lugar do avaliador; (3) a possibilidade de o sujeito constituir a sua escrita a partir de uma posição singular, por meio da metaenunciação e da polifonia. Neste último caso, perguntamo-nos que fatores levariam à possibilidade de deslocamento dos sujeitos de uma posição enunciativa para uma posição metaenunciativa. Além do posicionamento sistemático no lugar da avaliação, outorgado pela instituição, concluímos que para o sujeito escritor constituir-se mais autoralmente e escrever com autonomia dentro da escola, é preciso encontrar um lugar de complexidade com a instituição escolar, em que a institucionalização e a subjetivação se dão de forma não dicotômica. Vimos pelas análises que esse lugar de complexidade fica favorecido quando há uma articulação entre o intra e o extraescolar, já que ele se compõe pela possibilidade de o sujeito estar dentro e fora do discurso escolar ao mesmo tempo; submeter-se e posicionar-se autonomamente. Por fim, concluímos que, na tensão produzida entre sujeito e instituição, quando houve adesão plena do sujeito à instituição, a singularidade do sujeito escritor não se constituiu, assim como quando não houve adesão. Na tensão entre adesão e autonomia, o sujeito escritor pode se constituir em sua singularidade. / This dissertation has been developed to investigate the subject/writing and subject/institution relationships established by students in Ensino Fundamental (F2) when they were systematically put in a situation of self-assessment, writing about their own writing. From the analysis of portfolios of texts produced by students year after year during F2, our goal has been to investigate in what ways the responses of the subjects to the school institutional calling - to speak about their own writing and their own learning - impact the constitution of the subject as a writer. We tried to show types of responses generated by the tension of the self-assessment; shifts in the subjects regarding the way they respond to the institution; and impacts in the writings of the students caused by the process of extradition of the subject carried out by the school. The corpus of the research comprises a collection of letters written by the students to their teachers, letters in which they comment on their own writing and their own texts. Our analysis is based on the concepts of dialogue, enunciation, surplus of vision, and polyphony, as put forth by Bakhtin, as well as on concepts taken from Análise do Discurso: heterogeneidade and metaenunciação (Authier-Revuz, 1990, 1998; Possenti, 2002, 2009). It has been possible to conclude from our results that the clash between subject and institution, in the setting of the (self)assessment, begets varied tensions that, more or less intense, elicit different responses from the subjects: (1) the repetition of the institutional discourse; (2) mastery of the school metalanguage and putting themselves in the place of the evaluator; (3) the possibility that the writer builds their own writing from a singular perspective, by means of metaenunciation and polyphony. Regarding the latter point, we have asked ourselves what factors could lead to the possibility of a shift in the subjects from an enunciative to a meataenunciative stance. Besides the systematic placement in the assessment situation, granted by the institution, we have come to conclude that in order for the subjectwriter to become more authorial and write with more autonomy inside the school, we have to find a place of complexity with the school institution in which institutionalization and subjectification take place in a non-dichotomic way. Our analysis has shown us that this place of complexity is favored when there is a connection between intra and extra-school elements, given that it is created by the possibility that the subject can be simultaneously in and out the school discourse; abyding by it and taking an autonomous stance. Finally, we conclude that, in the tension produced between subject and institution, when the subject adhered fully to the institution, the singularity of the subject-writer did not come to be, as well as when there was no adherence. In the tension between adherence and autonomy, the subject-writer might come to be in their singularity.
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Participação da comunidade na autoavaliação institucional em universidades da Argentina, Brasil e Paraguai / Community participation in institutional self-assessment in universities in Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay

Amâncio, Weslei Trevizan 22 February 2019 (has links)
Submitted by Marilene Donadel (marilene.donadel@unioeste.br) on 2019-03-28T00:01:54Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Weslei_Amancio_2019.pdf: 1726405 bytes, checksum: 10dc2b937e29839a1ea0f086d5b4e6fa (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2019-03-28T00:01:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Weslei_Amancio_2019.pdf: 1726405 bytes, checksum: 10dc2b937e29839a1ea0f086d5b4e6fa (MD5) Previous issue date: 2019-02-22 / This paper analyzes the participation of the community in the institutional self - assessment carried out in certain public universities of Argentina (UNNE), Brazil (UFFS, UTFPR) and Paraguay (UNE). The theoretical basis was based on a review of the specialized bibliography of the theme; the methodological resources used are the comparative study, the documentary research and the content analysis, with quantitative and qualitative approaches. We assume that the procedures and instruments adopted in the self-assessment processes carried out in universities, as well as the way of operationalization, are influenced by neoliberal policies, and given the models of managerialist management and the conception of objectivist evaluation in their environment, there is centralization and concentration of strategic decisions and the participation of the community occurs in an instrumental way, hampering their involvement in the processes and potential achievements and transformative that can mean the evaluation action. The analysis of the data shows that the definitions about self-assessment are restricted to organs and commissions with defined cuts and the composition of a small fraction of the institutional actors who are in charge of carrying out all the operationalization of the self-assessment processes. Thus, the centralization and concentration of the strategic decision spaces of the institution is a present reality and with significant relevance in the researched universities. With regard to the self-assessment process, many institutional actors have been absent, especially in the elaboration of contents and instruments. The participation, otherwise, when it occurs, has been constituted by a low adhesion and little representative of the university community, being too instrumentalised, partial and based on the quest to establish quantitative and summative results. Against this background, we point out that there is much to be re-evaluated, reflected and specially corrected and developed in the self-rated processes studied, particularly with regard to community participation and involvement in its elaboration, planning, execution, that is, in the construction of the action evaluation as a whole. We conclude that it is necessary to problematize the meanings of the institutional self-assessment processes that are circumscribed to the researched universities, by promoting the debate about the elaboration, structuring and intensification of participatory processes, through which the guide is, in a perspective of formative and emancipatory evaluation, knowledge of the institution and commitment to transformation, with a view to academic-scientific improvement and strengthening of the university's ethical, democratic and social responsibility and commitment. / Este trabalho analisa a participação da comunidade nas autoavaliações institucionais realizadas em determinadas universidades públicas da Argentina (UNNE), Brasil (UFFS, UTFPR) e Paraguai (UNE). O embasamento teórico se deu por meio de revisão da bibliografia especializada do tema; os recursos metodológicos utilizados são o estudo comparado, a pesquisa documental e a análise de conteúdo, com abordagens quantitativa e qualitativa. Partimos do pressuposto de que os procedimentos e instrumentos adotados nos processos autoavaliativos realizados nas universidades, bem como o modo de operacionalização, sofrem influências das políticas neoliberais, e estando presentes os modelos de gestão gerencialista e a concepção de avaliação objetivista no seu ambiente, há centralização e concentração das decisões estratégicas e a participação da comunidade se dá de maneira instrumental, prejudicando o seu envolvimento nos processos e as potencialidades realizadoras e transformadoras que podem significar a ação avaliativa. As análises dos dados revelam que as definições acerca da autoavaliação estão restritas a órgãos e comissões com recortes definidos e com composição de uma pequena fração dos atores institucionais, que estão incumbidos de realizar toda a operacionalização dos processos autoavaliativos. Assim, a centralização e concentração dos espaços de decisão estratégicos da instituição é uma realidade presente e com significativa relevância nas universidades pesquisadas. No que diz respeito ao processo autoavaliativo muitos atores institucionais têm ficado ausente, especialmente na elaboração dos conteúdos e instrumentos. A participação, de outra forma, quando ocorre, tem se constituído por uma baixa adesão e pouco representativa da comunidade universitária, sendo excessivamente instrumentalizada, parcial e calcada na busca de estabelecer resultados quantitativos e somatórios. Frente a esse quadro, apontamos que há muito a ser reavaliado, refletido e especialmente corrigido e desenvolvido nos processos autoavaliativos estudados, particularmente no que diz respeito à participação e envolvimento da comunidade na sua elaboração, planejamento, execução, ou seja, na construção da ação avaliativa em seu todo. Concluímos que é preciso problematizar os sentidos dos processos autoavaliativos institucionais circunscritos às universidades pesquisadas, com a promoção do debate acerca da elaboração, estruturação e intensificação de processos participativos, pelo qual o guia seja, em uma perspectiva de avaliação formativa e emancipatório, o aprofundamento do conhecimento da instituição e o compromisso de transformação, com vista à melhoria acadêmico-científica e o fortalecimento da responsabilidade e do compromisso ético, democrático e social da universidade.
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Proficiência autoavaliada através de um questionário de histórico da linguagem

Scholl, Ana Paula January 2016 (has links)
Pesquisas com bilíngues e usuários de línguas adicionais utilizam diferentes medidas para avaliar proficiência no processo de seleção dos seus participantes. A proficiência linguística de um indivíduo pode ser medida através de testes de proficiência, testes de desempenho e medidas de autoavaliação. Questionários de histórico da linguagem contêm perguntas sobre a experiência que os indivíduos têm com as suas línguas e escalas de autoavaliação de proficiência. Estudos sugerem que usuários de línguas adicionais são capazes de reportar a sua proficiência de forma consistente com o seu desempenho em medidas padronizadas (MARIAN et al., 2007; LUK et al., 2013). Nesse contexto, a presente dissertação teve como objetivo analisar a proficiência autoavaliada de usuários de inglês como língua adicional através do Questionário de Experiência e Proficiência Linguística (QuExPLi). Para isso, foram desenvolvidos dois estudos. No primeiro estudo, correlacionamos as variáveis da experiência linguística – marcos de idade, tempo de imersão e uso atual da língua – de 535 participantes com a proficiência reportada por eles no Questionário de Experiência e Proficiência Linguística (QuExPLi), a fim de investigar quais fatores se associariam à proficiência autoavaliada. No segundo estudo, correlacionamos as mesmas variáveis da experiência com o inglês como língua adicional com os resultados no TOEFL ITP de 112 participantes, que fizeram parte do primeiro estudo, para investigar quais fatores se associariam à proficiência demonstrada em um teste de proficiência padronizado. Além disso, correlacionamos a proficiência autoavaliada no questionário com os resultados no TOEFL ITP, para averiguar a relação entre duas diferentes medidas de proficiência e reunir evidências de validade do QuExPLi. Os resultados sugerem que, em relação às variáveis da experiência linguística, os fatores relacionados a marcos de idade, tempo de imersão e uso atual da língua associam-se com a proficiência auto reportada pelos participantes. Porém, dentre esses fatores, apenas os meses passados em um país em que o inglês é falado correlacionaram-se de forma significativa com a proficiência dos participantes demonstrada através do TOEFL ITP. A discrepância entre os fatores associados à proficiência autoavaliada e aqueles que se associaram com o resultado no TOEFL ITP pode advir da natureza acadêmica do teste. Os resultados também revelam uma correlação positiva significativa moderada entre a proficiência autoavaliada no QuExPLi e a pontuação dos participantes no TOEFL ITP, sugerindo que os participantes, usuários de inglês como língua adicional, conseguem reportar sua proficiência de forma acurada. / Research with bilinguals and additional languages learners use different measures to evaluate proficiency while selecting participants for studies. An individual‟s language proficiency can be measured through proficiency tests, performance tests or self-evaluation measures. Language background questionnaires include questions about individuals‟ experience with their languages and self-assessment proficiency measures. Studies suggest that users of additional languages can report their proficiency in a way that is consistent with their performance in standard measures (MARIAN et al., 2007; LUK et al., 2013). In this context, the goal of the present thesis was to analyze self-assessed proficiency of users of English as an additional language through the Questionário de Experiência e Proficiência Linguística (QuExPLi). In order to do that, two studies were designed. In the first study, we correlated language experience variables – age, time of immersion and current use of the language - of 535 participants with their self-reported proficiency on the QuExPLi, in order to investigate which factors would associate with self-assessed proficiency. In the second study, we correlated the same language experience variables with the scores on the TOEFL ITP of 112 individuals, who also participated in the first study, in order to investigate which factors would associate with the proficiency demonstrated in a standardized proficiency test. Moreover, we correlated participants‟ self-assessed proficiency with their scores on the TOEFL ITP, in order to investigate the relationship between two distinct measures of proficiency and gather evidences of validity of the QuExPLi. Results suggest that the factors related to age, time of immersion and current use of the language are associated with participants‟ self-assessed proficiency. However, only the months spent in a country where English is spoken correlated significantly with participants‟ scores on the TOEFL ITP. The discrepancy between the factors associated with self-reported proficiency and those associated with the results on the TOEFL ITP can be derived from the academic nature of the test. Results also show a moderate positive correlation between participants‟ self-assessed proficiency and their scores on the TOEFL ITP was found, suggesting that users of English as an additional language are able to report their proficiency accurately.
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Continuous Quality Improvement in Higher Education A case study in Engineering School of Boras University

Shokraiefard, Ahoo January 2011 (has links)
This thesis considers “Quality in Higher Education” from different points of view. The aim isto achieve continuous quality improvement in Engineering School of Boras University as acase study. In order to improve quality, the quality criteria and definitions in higher educationare discussed. Different improvement methods that have been successfully used to improvequality in Educational systems such as PDCA (Deming wheel) and EFQM (EuropeanFoundation for Quality Management) are shortly presented. These methods are applied inBoras University Engineering School to find out the roots problems and main barriers toimprove quality, and there are some different solutions suggested to implement in order toachieve continuous quality improvement in this especial department. Although this case isfocused on Boras University, the writer believes that the same methods and assessments canbe used in any kind of educational organizations.
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Feedback and Revision: A Self-assessment Intervention

Kim, Pyong Ho January 2015 (has links)
Teacher feedback is a useful tool that can actively engage students in learning and help them improve content knowledge. However, students are generally not motivated to use the teacher feedback. The present study investigated whether self-assessment devices can promote students’ usage of teacher feedback among 5th through 8th graders. Self-assessment is a process during which students monitor and judge their learning process often with tools that provide perspective. The present study hypothesized that a self-assessment intervention utilizing rubrics and guiding questions would help students to successfully revise their work as the teacher feedback intends, accurately predict their performance, become receptive to the teacher’s criticism, and increase their content knowledge. While rubrics contain a list of criteria that the teacher expects students to achieve for each problem, guiding questions ask students to identify areas where they perform well and other areas where they need improvement. The present study took the form of an experiment, with participants divided into two Groups: Experimental (N=89) and Control (N=84). The Experimental Group students used the intervention, whereas the Control Group students did not use the intervention. Every participant worked on solving problems, revising their work, answering questions about the experience, and expressing their preference for the type of teacher feedback in mathematics. The study hypothesized that the self-assessment devices would help students to successfully revise their work as the teacher feedback intends, more accurately predict their performance, become receptive to the teacher’s criticism, and increase their content knowledge. The results showed that the self-assessment intervention helped the students successfully revise their work; furthermore, specific teacher feedback was more effective than general teacher feedback in terms of assisting them to revise. Students who used the intervention demonstrated higher levels of receptivity to negative feedback. On the other hand, the self-assessment intervention showed no significant effect on students’ ability to accurately predict their own performance and it did not produce better mathematics problem solvers. The results suggest that teachers need to provide feedback that precisely locates errors in students’ work and offer specific direction for improvement. Teachers also need to emphasize the purpose of the self-assessment and feedback usage, so that students become more aware of its importance. Furthermore, improving the student-teacher relationship and implementing other forms of self-assessment may enhance the effect of self-assessment on the successful use of feedback by students.
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Enfrentamento, papéis ocupacionais e a tarefa de cuidar de um idoso dependente / Coping, Occupational roles and task of caring for an elderly dependent.

Dahdah, Daniel Ferreira 17 August 2012 (has links)
INTRODUÇÃO: O envelhecimento não está diretamente relacionado a doenças e incapacidades, porém, as doenças dos idosos, em geral, são crônicas e múltiplas e exigem cuidados permanentes, o que faz do domicílio um lugar em que estes podem manter a estabilidade. Esse cuidado é geralmente oferecido por um membro da família, o cuidador primário. Este apresenta um acúmulo de trabalho em casa e uma sobrecarga nos diversos domínios da vida. Tal sobrecarga interfere nos papéis ocupacionais desempenhados de forma a contribuir para um desequilíbrio na vida produtiva e independente do cuidador. Além disso, o cuidado é visto como uma tarefa geradora de estresse e o seu enfrentamento se dá de formas diferentes para cada sujeito que o experimenta. Nesse sentido, a avaliação subjetiva deve também investigar a percepção de benefícios e ônus na tarefa de cuidar. OBJETIVO: Caracterizar um grupo de cuidadores de idosos dependentes quanto a indicadores sócio-demográficos e econômicos, estratégias de enfrentamento, percepção de benefícios e ônus em relação à tarefa de cuidar e possíveis alterações nos papéis ocupacionais. MÉTODO: Trata-se de um estudo quantitativo, do tipo descritivo e com delineamento transversal. Foram aplicados seis instrumentos para a coleta de dados, que foi realizada em dois hospitais de Ribeirão Preto. A amostra foi composta por 20 cuidadores. Respeitaram-se todos os critérios éticos para pesquisa envolvendo seres humanos. RESULTADOS: 80% dos idosos tinham dependência total da cuidadora para as atividades básicas de vida diária. 100% das cuidadoras eram mulheres de meia idade, na sua maioria com baixa escolaridade, baixa renda e com religião definida. 75% eram filhas do idoso. 95% moravam junto ao idoso e 80% delas estavam cuidando a mais de um ano, despendendo, em 65% dos casos, mais de doze horas diárias para essa tarefa. 70% delas recebiam algum tipo de ajuda, em geral pequena e de pessoas da própria família. Em relação às estratégias de enfrentamento, as cuidadoras adotam as focalizadas no problema (M= 4,05). Na percepção de benefícios e ônus, domínio psicológico positivo (78%) foi o mais freqüente. O domínio social negativo (59%) é o segundo mais citado, seguido do domínio físico negativo (58%). Houve perdas no desempenho de papéis ocupacionais quando comparados o passado e o presente e houve um desejo em retomar ou desempenhar um novo papel no futuro, com exceção de dois papéis vinculados ao cuidado. CONCLUSÕES: Os objetivos propostos para o estudo foram alcançados, porém há necessidade de estudos visando analisar as relações existentes entre as variáveis abordadas. / INTRODUCTION: Aging is not completely related to diseases and handicaps, however when disease happens it is a chronic condition that demands care. In this case home is where elderly can maintain health stability. Often care is given by a family member, the primary care. Much has been produced about the burden of care, because the person who cares for an aged relative besides this has other tasks to be accomplished. This burden interferes on occupational roles performed by the person who cares. Care can lead to stress and in this case coping is personal and idiosyncratic. Research has shown that it is necessary to evaluate the perception of benefits and demands of care besides considering it as burden. OBJECTIVE: To approach a sample of persons that care for dependent elderly regarding sociodemographic characteristics, coping strategies, perception of benefits and burden and occupational roles. METHOD: It is a descriptive, quantitative and transversal study. Six instruments were answered by users of two different hospitals in Ribeirão Preto with a sample of 20 subjects. All ethical requirements were achieved. RESULTS: 80% of the elderly were completely dependent on the person who cared for them. 100% of the persons who care were women, middle aged, with low level of education, low income and had a declared religion affiliation. 75% were daughters and 95% lived in the same house. 80% have been caring for more than one year and spent more than twelve hours a day on this activity. 70% have got help from other family members. Most of the women used coping strategy focused on problem solution (M= 4,05). They perceived benefits regarding care on positive psychological dominion (78%), social negative dominion (59%) and physical negative dominion (58%). Losses regarding occupational roles were identifed and the wish to recover or to perform other roles in the future, except two roles related to care. CONCLUSIONS: The aims of the study were reached, however other studies are required to reach the relations between the variables approached.
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AutoavaliaÃÃo institucional em InstituiÃÃo de Ensino Superior no CearÃ, na perspectiva da comunidade acadÃmica / Institutional Self-Evaluation in Institution of Higher Education in CearÃ, in the perspective of the academic community

Alexciano de Sousa Martins 30 June 2017 (has links)
nÃo hà / Busca-se, cada vez mais, a qualidade em tudo o que se oferece à sociedade. No Ãmbito da EducaÃÃo Superior no Brasil, nÃo à diferente. Desde a publicaÃÃo da Lei no 10.861, de 14 de abril de 2004, que instituiu o Sistema Nacional de AvaliaÃÃo da EducaÃÃo Superior (SINAES), a avaliaÃÃo constitui um dos instrumentos capazes de medir em que nÃvel os cursos precisam melhorar. Tendo o SINAES duas avaliaÃÃes externas e uma interna e permanente denominada AutoavaliaÃÃo Institucional (AI), o sistema procura identificar, nas suas trÃs grandes dimensÃes, organizaÃÃo didÃtico-pedagÃgica, infraestrutura e corpo docente e tutorial, aspectos que precisam ser melhorados nos cursos e nas instituiÃÃes de Ensino Superior (IES). A AI à recorrente na academia, mas o que resta saber à se os seus resultados proporcionam as mudanÃas esperadas e em tempo real. O estudo exploratÃrio de dois casos aqui estudados analisa a AI de dois campi do IFCE, tendo como objetivo conhecer a autoavaliaÃÃo institucional de uma instituiÃÃo de Ensino Superior, o IFCE, desde perspectiva de discentes, tÃcnicos e docentes, a fim de verificar a efetividade de melhorias nos cursos e na InstituiÃÃo, nos anos de 2014 a 2016, decorrentes deste processo avaliativo. Os sujeitos pesquisados foram os gestores, estudantes, docentes e tÃcnicos em EducaÃÃo dos campi de Tauà e CrateÃs, no CearÃ. A coleta em campo foi realizada por meio de entrevista estruturada com os gestores, em seguida, um questionÃrio especÃfico para cada segmento respondente da autoavaliaÃÃo institucional, sendo, assim, caracterizada como pesquisa de campo com finalidade exploratÃria. Complementando a coleta de dados, ouviu-se a ComissÃo Central de AvaliaÃÃo e compararam-se as informaÃÃes coletadas com um estudo anterior na mesma IES com temÃtica semelhante. Notou-se que os gestores usam os dados da AI para realizar suas intervenÃÃes nos campi, mesmo sem ser de modo sistematizado com o planejamento. Acerca dos segmentos, pode-se verificar que em alguns aspectos pesquisados e considerados fragilidades na AI, os tÃcnicos, discentes e docentes respondentes deste estudo conseguiram perceber melhorias na IES, como investimentos em infraestrutura, aumento do nÃmero de servidores, programas de extensÃo. Nem sempre, contudo, as aÃÃes da gestÃo para superar as fragilidades apontadas na AI sÃo percebidas ou satisfazem os tÃcnicos administrativos, docentes e discentes, pois sÃo apontados aspectos que nÃo denotam nenhuma melhoria. Por fim, alguns resultados deste estudo devem ser relativizados por conta da rotatividade de servidores e algumas especificidades dos questionÃrios da autoavaliaÃÃo institucional. / We seek, more and more, quality in everything that is offered to society. In the field of Higher Education in Brazil, it is no different. Since the publication of Law No. 10,861 of April 14, 2004, which established the National System for the Evaluation of Higher Education (SINAES), evaluation is one of the instruments capable of measuring the level at which courses need to be improved. Since the SINAES has two external evaluations and an internal and permanent one called Institutional Self-Assessment (AI), the system seeks to identify, in its three large dimensions, didactic-pedagogical organization, infrastructure and faculty and tutorial, aspects that need to be improved in the courses and in the Higher education institutions (HEIs). AI is recurring in academia, but what remains to know is whether its results provide the expected changes in real time. The exploratory study of two cases studied here analyzes the IIA of two IFCE campuses, aiming at knowing the institutional self-assessment of a Higher Education institution, the IFCE, from the perspectives of students, technicians and teachers, in order to verify the effectiveness of Improvements in courses and in the Institution, from 2014 to 2016, resulting from this evaluation process. The subjects studied were the managers, students, teachers and technicians in Education of the campuses of Tauà and CrateÃs, in CearÃ. The field data collection was performed through a structured interview with the managers, then a specific questionnaire for each respondent segment of the institutional self-assessment, being thus characterized as an exploratory field research. Complementing the data collection, the Central Evaluation Commission was heard and the information collected was compared with an earlier study in the same HE with a similar theme. It was noted that managers use the AI ​​data to perform their interventions on the campuses, even without being systematized with planning. Regarding the segments, it is possible to verify that in some aspects researched and considered weaknesses in the AI, the technicians, students and teachers of this study were able to perceive improvements in the HEI, such as investments in infrastructure, increase in the number of servers, extension programs. Not always, however, the actions of the management to overcome the weaknesses pointed out in the AI ​​are perceived or satisfied by the administrative technicians, teachers and students, since they point out aspects that do not denote any improvement. Finally, some results of this study should be relativized due to server turnover and some specificities of the institutional self-assessment questionnaires.
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Proposição e aplicação de um processo de avaliação de sistemas de gestão da qualidade ISO 9001:2000 / Proposition and application of an evaluation process for ISO 9001:2000 quality management systems

Sordan, Juliano Endrigo 14 June 2005 (has links)
O presente trabalho tem como objetivo a proposição e aplicação de um processo de avaliação de sistemas de gestão da qualidade segundo requisitos ISO 9001:2000. A avaliação da situação atual das práticas de gestão da qualidade de uma organização é uma condição indispensável para a certificação ISO 9001:2000. Muitas vezes, este processo implica altos custos relacionados a serviços de consultoria, que acabam sendo necessários devido à falta de conhecimento sobre os requisitos normativos por parte da organização, bem como a falta de um modelo simplificado de diagnóstico. Com base no processo proposto, infere-se que é possível realizar uma avaliação das práticas de gestão da qualidade de uma organização de modo a identificar as lacunas entre essas práticas e os requisitos ISO 9001:2000. A dissertação é constituída pelas seguintes partes: a) revisão da literatura, com o propósito de reforçar os conhecimentos concernentes à gestão da qualidade total e aos modelos de auto-avaliação; b) desenvolvimento do processo de avaliação a partir dos referenciais teóricos explorados; c) aplicação da proposta em organizações selecionadas; e d) avaliação dos resultados e conclusões sobre o trabalho. Infere-se que a aplicação da proposta será capaz de identificar as lacunas entre as práticas de gestão da qualidade e os requisitos ISO 9001:2000, além de permitir a identificação do estágio de adequação a esses requisitos. O processo de avaliação proposto também é capaz de identificar os pontos fortes e as oportunidades para melhoria, para que a organização possa se adequar aos requisitos ISO 9001:2000. / The present research aims the proposition and application of an assessment process for quality management systems according top the requirements ISO 9001:2000. The assessment of the current practices of quality management of an organization is an indispensable condition for the ISO 9001:2000 certification. Many times this application implies in elevated costs related to the consulting services, which are considered necessary due to the lack of knowledge about the requirements from the organizations as well as the absence of a simplified diagnosis model. Based on the proposed work, it is thought possible to perform an evaluation of the practices management of the quality of an organization so that it can identify the existent gaps between these practices and the ISO 9001:2000 requirements. The dissertation is constituted by two parts: a) a review of the literature with the proposal of reinforcing the knowledge related to the total quality management and to the self-assessment models; b) development of an assessment process from the explored theoretical references; c) the practical use of the proposed work in selected organizations and d) evaluation of the obtained results. It can be supposed that the application of the practical use of the work will allow the identification of the gaps between the current quality management practices and the requirements ISO 9001:2000, besides allowing the identification of the phase of adjustment to those requirements. Theproposed evaluation process is also a useful tool for the identification of the strengths of the evaluated material and what needs to be improved so that the organization is able to adequate itself to ISO 9001:2000 requirements.
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Performance Self-Appraisal Calibration of ESL Students on a Proficiency Reading Test

Petersen, Jodi Mikolajcik 01 April 2018 (has links)
Self-assessment as a placement measure or accurate assessment of skill has been scrutinized in previous research. Findings have shown a general human tendency towards overconfidence in performance (Kruger & Dunning, 1999). This study looks at performance self-appraisals in an ESL population, with participants from varying cultural backgrounds. Performance self-appraisal calibration is a measure of the relationship between an examinee's perceived skill (or confidence) and their actual skill (or ability) on a given exam item (Phakiti, 2016). Being well-calibrated is an indication that test takers know their strengths and weaknesses and thus the difference between confidence and ability is minimal, whereas poorly calibrated examinees may be oblivious to their weaknesses. While some research has explored self-appraisal calibration in first language (Hassmén & Hunt, 1994; Gutierrez & Schraw, 2015; Stankov & Lee, 2014) and foreign language contexts (Bastola, 2016; Phakiti, 2016), the language research has been limited to the performance of native language speakers on norm-referenced tests. It still needs to be determined how test takers would perform on a criterion-referenced exam with items of differing difficulty parameters administered to examinees from different language backgrounds. To that end, a proficiency-based criterion-referenced reading comprehension test was administered to 96 ESL students with 8 different language backgrounds. To measure confidence, a pre- and post-test questionnaire was administered in addition to a confidence slider bar that was embedded into each test item. We investigated correlations between cultural background and item difficulty on the students' self-appraisal calibrations. Our results showed that ESL students were overconfident in their self-calibrations, and their overconfidence was more pronounced as item difficulty increased. There were significant differences based on native language background. Implications will be discussed.

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