Institutional Evaluation of Training Projects

Code:

E402

Acronym:

AIPF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Adult Education

Instance: 2010/2011 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	63	Official Curricular Structure	2	-	4,5	-

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

LEARNING GOALS:

- To reflect on the complexity and ambiguity of the concept of evaluation as a place of contradictions and tensions;
- To question evaluation as a process capable of contributing to the attribution/construction of meaning;
- To analyse the relevance of different evaluation models to the object that is being evaluated;
- To discuss evaluation processes in their real contexts (agents, processes, projects, institutions, policies).

COMPETENCIES TO BE DEVELOPED

- To analyse the epistemological and ethical basis of evaluation;
- To develop strategies and instruments of evaluation related to training and development projects;
- To design,develop and evaluate training and development projects;

Program

PROGRAM TOPICS:

1. Conceptualization of evaluation as an ambiguous concept and place of tensions
1.1 Control/Evaluation;
1.2 Objectivity/subjectivity

2. Technical axis and ethical axis of evaluation: relevance and protagonism
2.1. Operation of double articulation/triple articulation
2.2. Attribution of value/construction of value
2.3. Evaluation and the construction of meaning

3. Scientific construction and political construction of evaluation: epistemological issues and strategic issues
3.1. Evaluation models: evaluation as a measure, as management, as problematic of meaning;
3.2. Uses of evaluation: between the legitimating of public powers and the demand for democracy;

4. Perspectives of evaluation and relation between appraiser-appraised-evaluation
4.1. Internal evaluation
4.2. External evaluation
4.3. Institutional evaluation
5. Evaluation in its real contexts
5.1. Evaluation of projects, institutions and policies.

Mandatory literature

Afonso Almerindo Janela; Políticas educativas e avaliação educacional. ISBN: 972-8098-27-8
Barbier Jean-Marie; A^avaliação em formação. ISBN: 972-36-0233-4
Bonniol Jean-Jacques; Modelos de avaliação. ISBN: ISBN 85-7307-768-9
CURAPP ; L’évaluation dans l’administration. , PUF, 1993
Fernandes, Domingos; "Avaliação das aprendizagens em Portugal: investigação e teoria da actividade.", Sísifo. Revista de Ciências da Educação 09, 87-100., 2009
Hadji Charles; A^avaliação regras de jogo. ISBN: 972-0-34115-7
Lecointe, Michel; Les enjeux de l’évaluation. , Paris e Montréal, L’Harmattan., 1997
Lecointe, Michel; Les valeurs comme dénominateur commun à l’évaluation et aux politiques., XIIIe Colloque de l’ADMEE Europe - «L’évaluation des politiques d’éducation», Dijon, ADMEE Europe, 1999
Rodrigues, Pedro; As três «lógicas» da Avaliação de dispositivos educativos., Para uma Fundamentação da Avaliação em Educação. A. Estrela and A. Nóvoa.Lisboa, Edições Colibri: 93-109., 1994
Terrasêca Manuela; L.évaluation de programmes de formation
Terrasêca Maria Manuela Martins Alves; Avaliação de sistemas de formação

Teaching methods and learning activities

1. In contact activities
1.1. Presentation
1.2. Debate
1.3. Group work
1.4. Presentation of works by the students
1.5. Tutorial orientation
1.6. Evaluation of learning

2. In autonomous work activities
2.1. Reading and analysis of texts
2.2. Research work
2.3. Bibliographical research
2.4. Development of works (reports, critical reviews, diaries, portfolios, narratives, cd-rom,…)
2.5. Organization of work presentations.

keywords

Social sciences > Educational sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	63,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Eligibility for exams

Continuous assessment without final exam
1. The continuous assessment without final exam, assessment regime defined for this unit, foresees “assessment throughout the year/semester, according to the forms defined in article 9, without final exam” (as in article 7).

2. In terms of general principles, assessment is connected with the theoretical-practical statute of the unit, which determine that students must not be absent in more than 25% of the planned classes, this number of classes being calculated in the first week of classes by teachers and students, taking into account its actual start and interruptions (according to the Faculty’s Assessment Rules).

3. Therefore the general orientation for the assessment and classification in this unit is the valorisation of active participation of students in the mobilization of the sessions, strictly related with the assiduity to classes.

4. The classification in this unit is based on: 1) assessment of a group work developed during the semester; and 2) oral and written presentation of a report of the work developed in group. These two elements will be classified on a 0-20 scale.

5. If students do not obtain 8 values in the classification of each of the assessment elements, it will imply, as a mechanism of recourse within the continuous assessment, the accomplishment of a written test, without consultation, about the unit’s theme, according to this program, classified on a 0-20 scale.

6. According to point 4, article 9 from the Assessment Rules, “students who by law have been exempted from attending classes, can be requested to do a special exam or work, to demonstrate that they have the required knowledge and competencies, previously defined in the unit’s chart.
This exam will take place during the exam period, at the end of the 2nd semester, and will consist of a written exam, without consultation. The students who have to take this exam must proceed to the due registration in the Academic Services (according to point 8 of article 9 of the Assessment Rules).

Calculation formula of final grade

1. Group work – the classification to be attributed individually contributes 30% to the final grade.
2. Oral presentation – 20% of the final grade.
3. Written report (individual) – 50% of the final grade.

Examinations or Special Assignments

If students do not obtain 8 values in the classification of each of the assessment elements, it will imply, as a mechanism of recourse within continuous assessment, the accomplishment of a written test, without consultation, about the unit’s issues, according to this program, classified on a 0-20 scale.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

1. According to point 4, article 9 from the Assessment Rules, “students who by law have been exempted from attending classes, can be requested to do a special exam or work, to demonstrate that they have the required knowledge and competencies, previously defined in the unit’s chart.

2. This exam will take place during the exam period, at the end of semester, and will consist of a written exam, without consultation. The students who have to take this exam must proceed to the due registration in the Academic Services (according to point 8 of article 9 of the Assessment Rules).

Classification improvement

For the improvement of classification students can do a written test, without consultation, that will include the unit’s issues.