Avaliação da qualidade das bibliotecas e rendimento dos alunos no exame nacional de desempenho dos estudantes (ENADE): estudo de caso da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Abstract

The general objective of this study was to conduct an assessment of quality of university libraries and its association with student performance in the National Examination of Student Performance (ENADE). The literature of the area addressed the evolution of approaches to learning assessment, the dimensions of the concept of quality more appropriate to the educational context. Presents the development of evaluation systems already in place in Brazil, contextualizing them always from the relation State-Society-Education. The research is exploratory and used as a technical procedure to collect the data field study ex post facto. The sample was chosen on the basis of grades obtained by the courses in ENADE. Data were collected through questionnaire and analyzed using the software Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), which provided the calculation of measures of location average, median and mode. The association between quality of university library and the concepts of the courses in ENADE occurred mainly with the acquis regarding the fulfillment of information needs and the adequacy of furniture. The evaluation has generated knowledge about the students' satisfaction regarding the various dimensions of university library and this fact is related to the quality of training of students, investigated by ENADE. The research revealed that there are aspects in the infrastructure of the library that compromise performance satisfactory supply of information services to the academic community.