O SINAES, o ENADE e a formação geral do estudante da educação superior

Abstract

This study has had as main objective awalys the effects of a subject about to general education, proposed by the guidelines of Exame Nacional do Desempenho dos Estudantes -ENADE in graduate courses of an IES, could contribute to the student's progress in this part of the test. This survey has sought to highlight the discipline merits, having as its leading line the evaluative models deployed in Brazil and the evaluative system arisen from SINAES Law. This reasearch has been carried out in a private private university on the countryside of Paraná State and had; Subjects were, 286 students who took part in the 2009 and the 2012 ENADE (National Examination of Students Performance). The data were collected through an informative questionnaire and other means were collectively applied by the researcher, during normal class term, in the selected courses. The data was analyzed both in qualitative and quantitative ways and it was possible to conclude that there has been a considerable improvement in performance of students who have regurlarly attended this subject, in 2012. In a general way, important relationships were found between perception student over subject´s importance and improvement.