A avaliação institucional como instrumento de gestão e consolidação do projeto pedagógico institucional na educação superior

O presente artigo relata evidências a partir dos processos de avaliações externas que demonstram o quanto a avaliação institucional subsidia a gestão e a consolidação dos Projetos Pedagógicos Institucionais nas IES. Aborda as possibilidades de articulação entre a autoavaliação e o planejamento institucional, mediante processos de regulação e/ou emancipação. Trata-se de um relato de experiência, fundamentado nas avaliações in loco vivenciadas pelas pesquisadoras como avaliadoras ad hoc do INEP-MEC. O estudo traz breves considerações acerca das percepções das avaliadoras sobre a concepção e prática da avaliação institucional, o que implica afirmar que neste processo evidencia-se ainda práticas mais voltadas para a regulação do que a emancipação. This article reports evidence from external evaluation processes that demonstrate how institutional evaluation subsidizes the management and consolidation of Institutional Pedagogical Projects in HEIs. It approaches the possibilities of articulation between self-assessment and institutional planning, through processes of regulation and/or emancipation. This is an experience report, based on the on-site evaluations experienced by the researchers as ad hoc evaluators for INEP-MEC. The study brings brief considerations about the perceptions of the evaluators on the conception and practice of institutional assessment, which implies affirming that in this process it is still evident practices more focused on regulation than emancipation.

Comprehensive and Clinically Accurate Head and Neck Organs at Risk Delineation via Stratified Deep Learning: A Large-scale Multi-Institutional Study

Accurate organ at risk (OAR) segmentation is critical to reduce the radiotherapy post-treatment complications. Consensus guidelines recommend a set of more than 40 OARs in the head and neck (H&N) region, however, due to the predictable prohibitive labor-cost of this task, most institutions choose a substantially simplified protocol by delineating a smaller subset of OARs and neglecting the dose distributions associated with other OARs. In this work we propose a novel, automated and highly effective stratified OAR segmentation (SOARS) system using deep learning to precisely delineate a comprehensive set of 42 H&N OARs. SOARS stratifies 42 OARs into anchor, mid-level, and small & hard subcategories, with specifically derived neural network architectures for each category by neural architecture search (NAS) principles. We built SOARS models using 176 training patients in an internal institution and independently evaluated on 1327 external patients across six different institutions. It consistently outperformed other state-of-the-art methods by at least 3-5% in Dice score for each institutional evaluation (up to 36% relative error reduction in other metrics). More importantly, extensive multi-user studies evidently demonstrated that 98% of the SOARS predictions need only very minor or no revisions for direct clinical acceptance (saving 90% radiation oncologists workload), and their segmentation and dosimetric accuracy are within or smaller than the inter-user variation. These findings confirmed the strong clinical applicability of SOARS for the OAR delineation process in H&N cancer radiotherapy workflows, with improved efficiency, comprehensiveness, and quality.

How Institutional Evaluation Bridges Uncertainty and Happiness: A Study of Young Chinese People

Uncertainty triggers negative psychological responses, while positive institutional evaluations elevate the sense of control in individuals and satisfy their need for structure and order. Data from the 2015 Chinese Social Survey (CSS) (N = 4,605) demonstrated that objective uncertainty negatively predicted the happiness of young people (aged 18–45 years). However, this negative relationship was attenuated among those who evaluated the institutional system (e.g., social security, local government effectiveness, and trust in government) positively; in other words, positive institutional evaluation may have protected people's happiness from the threat of uncertainty. In addition, participants from different age groups evaluated the institutional system differently. The first generation born after the Chinese economic reform, which includes young people born in the 1980s (aged 26–35 years), had unique experiences compared to the preceding (aged 36–45 years, born in the 1970s) and succeeding (aged 18–25 years, born in the 1990s) generations. Among the three age groups, young people born in the 1980s held the least positive evaluation of the institutional system. The institutional evaluation also showed the weakest moderating effect on this group's happiness.

Proposals for follow-up of graduates in the institutional development plans of federal universities

Universities fulfill the mission of carrying out teaching, research and extension based on a recognition of education as an instrument of social transformation. In this sense, public institutions are being increasingly charged for the efficiency and effectiveness of their actions. From this context, evaluation mechanisms emerge to measure effectiveness and assign concepts to Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). From the recognition of the instruments that recommend the institutional evaluation in Brazil, the mention of the planning actions, the Institutional Development Plan (PDI) becomes strategic, and in this it is observed as an indicator to be inserted, the accompaniment of graduates of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. The objective of the research is to identify the actions and goals foreseen in the IDPs of Brazilian federal universities in the Southeast region to follow up their graduates. The development of this work was through the qualitative approach with documentary research, by searching the university websites for the available institutional information. The results point to two distinct contexts, in which most of the researched institutions inserted in their macro-document the theme, one group aims to implement the policy and another group intends to advance to other follow-up stages, since it is a policy already institutionalized.

Penelitian Evaluasi: Kajian Evaluasi Kinerja Institusi aspek Kinerja Penelitian

The purpose of this article is to analyze the evaluation of the institutional evaluation of research aspects. The results of the analysis on several articles that are spoken, performance evaluation, evaluation of several basic factors in evaluating the impact of research for decision making on the development of research proposal performance, theory of institutional evaluation research concepts, research team trails, research management, research impact, research mobilization and research participant groups.

Correction to: Improving Institutional Evaluation Methods: Comparing Three Evaluations Using PSM, Exact and Coarsened Exact Matching

A correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-021-09646-8

Notes on postgraduate research: the place of student policies in higher education

The article consists of a literature review by surveying publications of theses and dissertations filed in the database of the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) of (MCTI). In the first part, we present a theoretical framework on university, educational policy and social emancipation. In the second part, we catalog and analyze the productions by reading the summary and keywords. In this section, we make a brief analysis of the surveys grouping them by emerging categories and subcategories, that is, which emerged during the analysis. For the construction of the text, we opted for a documentary research, in an exploratory perspective and with a qualitative approach of getting to know the field of production through theses and dissertations. Among the themes found, we identified: institutional evaluation, University, Educational policy, School management, Professional training, School as rights, Itinerant School. Finally, we believe that the research contributions are timely and reinforce that we have achieved our objective.

Between Tradition and the Future: On Metrics and Performance Indicators for the Faculty of Law at University of São Paulo

The purpose of this article is to explore the possibilities of constructing performance indicators for the Faculty of Law (FL) at the University of São Paulo (USP), aiming to use them as instruments capable of institutional evaluation and as metrics capable of national and international comparisons, looking to strengthen their reputation. The construction of qualitative research indicators for law courses takes into account that objectives and results in graduate and postgraduate courses are diverse, and that there are different actors involved in these processes. Moreover, for intellectual production as well as articles and books, there are various extension activities expressed in sentences, decisions, judgments, and drafting of legislation—of huge social impact—which are not taken into account by performance analyses. Finally, it must be borne in mind that Faculties of Law were traditionally created to operate within national systems.