Avaliação da Mediação On- Line nos Cursos Semipresenciais da Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The study entitled Mediação on line: Construto na Avaliação Educacional intends to evaluate the performance of tutors of courses of Distance Education (D.Ed.) according to the following dimensions: didactics, pedagogic, technological, social and political. The theoretical approach that subsidized the discussions was based on the theory of the mediation and on the concept of Educational Assessment established on the model CIPP created by Daniel Lorey Stuffebleam. The research was characterized as a quantitative and qualitative study of statistical data analyzed by the software SPSS version 20.0. The data were obtained through a virtual learning platform named Solar that belongs to Instituto Universidade Virtual da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). A simple random sample was composed by 50 tutors and 550 students of semipresential courses of D.Ed., two baccalaureate courses and seven licentiate courses. A questionnaire with the characterization of the tutor and a scale of self-evaluation with 40 items - each one measured in a likert scale with three categories of measures - were applied to the tutors. A questionnaire with 16 questions about characterization was applied to the students as well as a scale with 16 items to evaluate the tutor, each one measured in a likert scale with three categories of measures. The analysis of the results revealed that: the students evaluated the tutor with average 7,1 through the applied scale. The item that presented the lower evaluation was regarding the technological mediation with average 1,0. The item that presented the higher evaluation was regarding the domain of content of the discipline with average 1,7. Concerning the group of the students' evaluations, they tend to see the tutor as a traditional professor. Relating to the self-evaluation of the tutor, the applied scale presented average 8,9 and the applied questionnaire presented the tutor as a traditional professor (36%) and mediator (14%). It should be pointed out that the tutors participated in a course about the theme of how their performance should be.