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Pedagogical Surveys at the U.Porto

Introduction

The U.Porto Pedagogical Survey (IPUP) is an important tool for the continuous improvement of the quality of education at the University of Porto, that every semester is made available online to all students.

To this end, students collaborate actively, directly and constructively to the improvement of the teaching and learning processes of the University. The anonymity of all answers is ensured, being only object of statistical treatment.

The process of creating IPUP started in 2004 and was developed over the years, with several adaptations resulting from the evaluation of its implementation by a team of professors from the U.Porto Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences (Marina Lemos, Cristina Queirós, Isabel Menezes, Pedro Lopes dos Santos and Pedro Teixeira), with three main objectives:

• develop a diversified pool of evaluation questions that could come to have a comprehensive and appropriate use to various study programmes;
• conduct the an in-depth study of the dimensionality, the validity and internal consistency of the survey as an evaluation instrument, suppressing the often detected gap of the lack of evaluation studies on the quality of the instrument itself;
• build an evaluation procedure that mobilizes both professors and students, also considering that is desirable to involve professors and students in the process of survey design and in the analysis of its results.

Over the years and after an extended reflection at U.Porto level (within the Coordinating Council of Improvement of Teaching-Learning of the University of Porto (CCMEUP)), about the implemented model of the pedagogical survey and its respective results, different versions have emerged.

Results of the U.Porto Pedagogical Survey

After the period for survey completion, global statistics are generated, which are available for consultation in the U.Porto information system. The results on the Unit Course dimension are accessible to all professors and students, and the detailed results of each Unit Course are accessible by the respective teaching team. In addition, the results of each Study Cycle are reserved for the different management bodies, including Directors, President of the Scientific Council, Members of the Faculty’s Pedagogical Council, Department Directors, Scientific and Study Cycle monitoring Committees.

The results of the IPUP/ U.Porto Pedagogical Survey are an important contribution to:

• the participation of students in the continuing improvement of education at U.Porto;
• the recognition and appreciation of the efforts of the U.Porto teaching staff;
• the analysis of the functioning of the Study Cycles by the respective Scientific and monitoring Committees (reflection to be integrated into annual reports);
• the analysis of the overall results by the Pedagogical Council, whose final report should be public and open to discussion/internal reflection in each Faculty;
• the diagnosis of situations presenting, by persistence and gravity, less favourable results and the consequent adoption of initiatives aiming to overcome these weaknesses.

For up-to-date information, please visit the U.Porto Educational Innovation Portal.