Self-assessment results
UEM implemented the Institutional Self-Assessment process for stricto sensu programs through Resolution no. 38/2019-CEP. The self-assessment process in the PGF has been built over the last four years, based on the guiding document for completing the four-year report, published in 2020, and on the evaluation form containing the results of the four-year evaluation for the period 2017-2020. In this way, the self-assessment mechanisms are constantly being improved. The need to make the self-assessment process more systematic led to the creation of a permanent self-assessment committee in 2019, formed by 3 professors, 1 technical staff member, and 1 academic. The committee is currently formed by the current coordinator of the PGF, Dr. Wagner Dalla Costa Félix, and by the professors who served as coordinators in the immediately preceding periods, Dr. Paulo Ricardo Martines and Dr. Max Rogério Vicentini, in addition to the student representative Débora Miriã Gomes dos Santos and the technician Rosângela Scoaris.
The committee constantly monitors the activities of the PGF in relation to its strategic planning. Discussions in the area of evaluation are ongoing, mediated largely by ANPOF, and the work of the area's coordination at CAPES in favor of transparency and clarification of the evaluation processes, in particular the improvement of the self-evaluation of the Programs, were major contributions to the work of the PGF in this regard.
The Program seeks to start from a diagnosis of the program's weaknesses and strengths based on internal dialogue, since the size of the faculty, which has 13 permanent professors, facilitates constant dialogue and in-depth knowledge of the teaching activities carried out by other colleagues and by the PGF coordination. In addition to these procedures, assessment tools are developed in the form of questionnaires and forms for data collection, which are made available online, in order to facilitate the collection of information from enrolled and former students and to allow each teacher to carry out their own self-assessment and indicate their outstanding productions, including well-founded justifications.
The self-assessment committee aims to reflect on the PGF's progress to date, seeking to identify the reasons for its current situation as well as to determine the elements that could guide its future development, indicating individual and collective actions that can contribute to the success of the Program. For the 2021-2024 Quadrennial Assessment period, with the aim of achieving standards of excellence that justify maintaining Concept 4 with a solid evaluation, the committee understood that there are several aspects in which the PGF should achieve incremental improvements, perfecting already consolidated practices and processes, and important aspects in which it should present significant improvements, aiming at the long-term planning of the Program, which included, in the 2021-2024 four-year period, the preparation of its pedagogical project for the Doctorate in Philosophy course.
The full self-assessment report is available here: