Avaliação da qualidade educacional da Faculdade de Educação (FACED) da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Abstract

The aim of this research is to evaluate some aspects of the Pedagogy Course of the Faculty of Education (FACED) of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) which endangers the quality of education. At that moment, we focus on the following: adequacy of the physical installations; informatics equipments and audiovisual resources as well as teachers’ involvement in the teaching-learning process. For so, it was used the sample composed by 124 university students of the UFC Pedagogy course, at the average of 26,8 years of age (Standard deviation = 7.05 years), of which 96 were female (77,2%) and 83 from the night course (66,9%). We observed that 32 of the interviewed students (25, 7%) had enrolled in 1999.2, and were conscious of the aspects that compose the evaluated reality for at least, four years. The main results pointed out the existence of the following kinds of problems:1) structural: inadequacy of the physical installations at the FACED; and 2) conjuncture: (a) safety inadequacy at the FACED, (b) maintenance inadequacy of the audiovisual and informatics equipments, (c) inadequacy of the teachers’ involvement in some academic activities, (d) inadequacy of attendance given from the coordination of graduation to the students staff, (e) inadequacy of optional discipline (f) inadequacy of the internet registering system and finally, (g) loss of the evening course of Pedagogy prestige. Keywords: Educational assessment. Quality of Education. Higher Education.