Evaluation proceedings in actions of distance education for health professionals: a Literature review

• Autor(a) principal: de Britto Dutra, Evelyn
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ana Silvia Pavani Lemos, Kellen Cristina da Silva Gasque, Maria de Jesus Rezende
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng; spa
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Aprendizagem Aberta e a Distância
• Texto Completo: https://seer.abed.net.br/RBAAD/article/view/460
• topic: Educational assessment.; In-service training.; Distance education.; Continuing education.; Health professionals.; Evaluación educativa.; Capacitación en servicio.; Educación a distancia.; Educación continua.; Personal sanitario.; Avaliação educacional.; Capacitação em serviço.; Educação a distância.; Educação continuada.; Pessoal de saúde.

The increasing dissemination of distance education in recent deca-des has recognized the potential that educational processes would have when supported by technological resources. One of the central elements of  building  a  distance  learning  course  is  the  Educational  Assessment  Strategy. Thus, it is mandatory to investigate the assessment methodo-logies that are currently being used in Continuous Health Education, as a way to qualify future offers of courses and enable, with greater efficien-cy, the achievement of the learning objectives and development of com-petencies  proposed  in  the  training.  The objective of the present study was to identify the educational assessment strategies adopted in profes-sional qualification actions for health workers in Brazil, carried out in the distance education modality at a national level. This is a documen-tary research, carried out through a review of the literature narrative.  Data collection was carried out in January 2020, in the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and SciELO databases. A total of ten articles was consi-dered within the scope of the study, evaluating training (short courses), specializations and disciplines, offered both at the blended or distance modality. Target audience of the training courses comprised health professionals in hospitals, primary care, health promotion or education areas. Authors adopted different theoretical assessment approaches and levels of deepening, in which more traditional instruments prevailed, such as closed questionnaires, which predominantly assessed content satisfaction and learning, without significant progress in impact assess-ment. Two models were highlighted, considered to be a reference in the field of educational assessment: Kirkpatrick Model and the Integrated Model of Work Training Assessment (Impact). Assessment of educatio-nal processes for health professionals is a field that needs to be explored in greater depth, as it is difficult to choose and develop more complete and structured assessment proposals. Thus, the study addresses that the diversification  of  measures  and  dimensions  analyzed  is  fundamental,  since the assessments tend to consider only individual perceptions.