Implementation of an academic master’s program oriented to the aging process

• Autor(a) principal: Spadella, Maria Angélica
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Camargo, Stéphanie Marques de, Mansano, Naira da Silva, Lazarini, Carlos Alberto, Payão, Spencer Luiz Marques, Assis, Marcos Renato de, Carvalho-Junior, Paulo Marcondes, Chies, Agnaldo Bruno
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: PAJAR - Pan American Journal of Aging Research
• DOI: 10.15448/2357-9641.2014.2.20489
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/pajar/article/view/20489
• topic: Education; Graduate; Aging; Educational Measurement; Program Evaluation.; Educação de Pós-Graduação; Envelhecimento; Avaliação Educacional; Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde.

Objective: Report strategies to evaluate the process or program implementation and following adjustments that were made in order to improve it.Methods: Report of an experience, supported by documentary analysis. Data comes from: records of the Presentation of New Courses Proposals; meetings minutes of the Council and the faculty members meeting; records and documents of the Postgraduate Department secretary; edicts of recruitment processes; documents of qualification and defense committees; publications in scientific journals and events; reports of the First and Second Program Evaluation Workshop; reports of the CAPES’ data system of and CAPES evaluation report. The documents cover the period 2011-2014. Results: Based on the analysis of the documents was possible to report the key strategies to establish a management plan for overcoming the identified weaknesses, as well as the strengths consolidation, with emphasis on the restructuring the curriculum and the students’ applications selection process, in addition to the preparation of the student syllabus with information about the Program. Conclusions: The implemented reforms as from a continuous process of evaluation have brought important advances in structuring the Program, towards interdisciplinarity and the concentration area of Health and Aging.