Carga de trabalho do professor de educação superior: o processo de construção de um instrumento de medida

Abstract

The work experiences of teachers, as well as workers in general, depend primarily on the relationships between the requirements and conditions in which the work is carried out, generally called workload, which derives from the context and characteristics of the work organization. The assessment of the workload allows to broaden the degree of understanding of the perception of the work conditions, risks and constraints arising therefrom. This article is characterized as a methodological study aimed at constructing an instrument of measurement of the workload of teachers from higher-level education institutions. For the purpose of fulfilling the objective, the research used techniques for observing the teaching activity for the construction of the “top level teaching workload questionnaire”, the CATRA-DNS, which, at the end of this study, was composed of 39 items, distributed in 3 factors called physical, cognitive and psychic, becoming apt to undergo validation process.