Exame nacional de desempenho dos estudantes - ENADE : recortes da educação superior presencial e a distância

Abstract

The research focuses on assessment of academic performance and procedure for provision of higher education in Brazil: face education and distance education. Diagnosis of Brazilian higher education reveals issues inherent to meet demand for this level of education. Points to distance education as an alternative to expanding the supply of graduate studies in Brazil, without disregarding the evaluation of higher education. Reality shows the expansion of distance higher education and the establishment of a National Assessment System of Higher Education in Brazil. The institutional evaluation, the evaluation of undergraduate courses and the evaluation of academic performance (known as ENADE) constitute the pillars of this assessment. The purpose of formative assessment are graded on the full use of their results in the educational process. The evaluation of academic performance presents specific results of this evaluation method without distinguishing the arrangement for supply of undergraduate courses. From the development of a case study of ENADE 2008, using the techniques of documentary research, sought to differentiate the results of the face education and distance education. The detailed procedures for organizing and publicizing the results of ENADE 2008 and reconstruction of the conceptual model according to the mode of offering of courses evaluated showed the possibility of building reports more specific and useful to the educational process, without evidence of marked differences in performance academic of face education and distance education measured by ENADE 2008.