TITLE:
Formative Evaluation of the Nursing Program at a University in the South of Brazil: Technological Tool to the Approach of the Unified Health System
AUTHORS:
Marta Lenise do Prado, Ana Karolliny Testoni, Silvana Silveira Kempfer, Fabiane Ferraz, Christiny Regina Lopes, Mariely Carmelina Bernardi
KEYWORDS:
Education; Nursing; Educational Measurement; Competency-Based Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.2 No.2,
January
9,
2014
ABSTRACT:
Background: The educational
evaluation focused on the critical training, creative and reflective is wanted
on the need for competent nursing professionals, acting effectively to the
present challenges in the context in which the Health System performs in
Brazil. Aims: Identify how the formative assessment process is expressed in
the syllabus of Nursing Federal University of Santa Catarina and in what
features it is configured as a tool of educational technology that promotes the
approach with the Unified Health System. Method: Qualitative research,
exploratory and descriptive in documentary base. Data were collected from May
to December 2012 and analyzed descriptively, from the perspective of the
proposed evaluation on the National Curriculum Guidelines/ Nursing. Results:
There were 23 types of evaluation on 33 teaching plans. The category that
emerged was: “Expression of competence evaluation on plans of teaching on
nursing course”, which presents the different types of evaluation related to
three dimensions: knowledge, skills and attitudes. Conclusion: Perceives a
movement of structural changes in some disciplines, making the evaluation
exit of the traditional matrix to a constructive matrix, characterized as a
technological tool that enhances professional development focused on the
Health System.