Historical series of Enade grades in Dentistry: were there changes throughout three evaluative cycles?

• Autor(a) principal: de Azevedo, Mariele Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Thayse Gonzaga, Barbosa, Rafael Lucas Sales, de Barros, Allan Vinícius Martins, da Silva, Andrea Cristina Barbosa, Sette-de-Souza, Pedro Henrique
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da ABENO (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revabeno.emnuvens.com.br/revabeno/article/view/337
• topic: Dentistry Education. Educational Evaluation. College Education.; Educação em Odontologia. Avaliação Educacional. Educação Superior.

The National System for Evaluation in Higher Education (SINAES) is responsible for evaluating Higher Education Institutions (IES) in Brazil and the National Student Proficiency Exam (Enade) is one of its evaluative axis which aims to assess the profile and the performance of the university students and the technical features of the available courses. The Enade is performed once in every three years for each field of knowledge by those students who are finishing the course. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a historical series of the Enade grades for Dental undergraduate courses of public and private higher education institutions in Brazil to check the variations over three evaluative cycles. For this, Enade grades for all the Dental courses evaluated in the years of 2007, 2010 and 2013 available in the reports provided by INEP were analyzed. The data were submitted to a descriptive analysis by the mean and standard deviation of the grades and categorized according to the Federated Unit and then put together in macroregions and according to its administrative category. Despite the difference in the concentration of the number of courses between the macroregions, those from the public higher education institutions have shown better grades in all situations. The dentistry courses of public HEI reached better grades than those of private HEI, in the Enade, independent of the region. Only the states of Rio Grande do Norte and Ceará have all public HEIs with a grade of 5.