O seminário como procedimento de socialização entre Programas de Pós-Graduação da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte: dimensões da autoavaliação e do planejamento

dimensões da autoavaliação e do planejamento

Abstract

The Office of the Vice-President for Graduate Studies (PPG) of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) has been using seminars as a socialization procedure among graduate programs, encouraging self-evaluation and planning, based on criteria established by the evaluation boards established by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). This article aims to characterize this socialization experience, pointing out the goals that were highlighted in each of the four groups of programs divided by area of ​​knowledge. This is an exploratory study that used as a methodological resource the questionnaire answered by 78 graduate programs of UFRN. The results of the questionnaires were presented to the program coordinators in the so-called “Sucupira Seminar”. The data were organized and later submitted to Content Analysis (CA). Among the findings, the diversity in the presentation of the results achieved throughout the period evaluated stands out, due to the lack of quantification in the definition of the goals to be achieved, as well as different understandings about the planning itself. The programs highlighted different demands, among which the challenge of internationalization stands out. Thus, the seminar proved to be a procedure with great potential to assist in the socialization among peers regarding the elements of the elaboration of a Four-Year Plan, as well as to collaborate in the recognition, by the coordinators, of the role of constant self-evaluation for the quality of their programs.