O curso de licenciatura em Educação Física/EAD da Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa e seu sistema de avaliação do aprendizado: uma análise de sua efetividade

Abstract

The present research has as its object of investigation the learning evaluation system and its degree of effectiveness in the Degree Course in Physical Education at UEPG in the form of Distance Education (EaD), having been developed from a sample of 94 academics and graduates who graduated about 6 months ago (in March 2021), all belonging to the aforementioned course. The general objective of the work was to analyze the learning assessments made available to individuals already graduated and those in the process of graduation regarding their effective collaboration in the educational process. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied about the written assessments (in person and on-line) and also the practical assessments developed in the modules carried out in the 8 educational centers, focusing on the teaching-learning sequence and if the contents developed in the disciplines contemplate the effective needs that are required in the labor market. The present work considers the presupposition that the evaluation system adopted by a higher education course has a great influence on the teaching-learning process and in this way we defend the thesis that the greater variability of evaluation forms used corroborates the optimization in the acquisition of knowledge by of students. As a theoretical contribution to the development of this study, the following works were used: Fernandes (2016), Gomury (2018), Mill and Ferreira (2018), Rodrigues (2018). The questionnaire instrument used was composed of objective and subjective questions distributed in 3 blocks, being Block I with 8 questions about the profile of the respondents, Block II with 15 questions covering the evaluation system and Block III with 7 questions that deal with the evaluations and contents of Physical Education classes, totaling 31 questions. In the results obtained, from the analysis by descriptive statistics and considering the question of agreement with the evaluation system applied, a total of 91 respondents or 96.8% of the sample totally or partially agree with it, and this percentage considers it as great or good. In the 3 forms of assessment (on-line and practical modules), the assessment developed in the practical modules had its methodology considered adequate or partially adequate for 97.9% of the sample or 92 individuals. Considering the weighting of the grades in the 3 forms of evaluation, it was found that 98.9% or 93 individuals considered this weighting as adequate or partially adequate, and of these 84% or 79 individuals considered this weighting as totally adequate. In the question about the evaluation system and motivation in academic life, 86.2% (81 students) reported that there was a positive motivational impact. When considering Physical Education demands and assessments, a total of 98.9% or 93 individuals reported that the demand always or almost always reached the respondents' expectations. Regarding the contents, a total of 89 individuals or 94.7% responded that they were covered in the classes, while 93.6% or 88 respondents attest that they were covered in the subjects. In the final summarized average of all responses, a total of 91.5% or 86 respondents have total/partial acceptance of the evaluation system. In the analysis by Data Mining, the average agreement rate with the objectives of the evaluation was 0.80, being considered high, with no significant differences between the answers given by the students and the graduates. In the KS normality test, the mean value obtained for academics was 0.0514 and for graduates it was 0.0123, while the mean variance was 0.3481. In the results referring to the Odds Ratios in the research focus on the acceptance of the evaluation system, academics have a slightly higher acceptance than graduates. Finalizing the acceptance of the evaluation system of the course in question by all the statistical analyzes carried out proved to be satisfactory. The proposed educational product refers to an application aimed at teachers that will enable the elaboration and correction of the developed assessments and to academics aiming to carry out the assessments in an autonomous and optimized way.