Assessment of teaching conditions": a simulation at the Accounting Course of the Federal University of Santa Catarina in the second term of 2004

Abstract

This study is drawn from a proposal of assessment of the Brazilian education as informed by "SINAES - Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Superior" (National System of Assessment of the Superior Education). The Institutional Assessment as proposed by SINAES, according to Law nº 10.861, of April 14, 2004, is comprised of four assessment tools, namely (1) Self-assessment, (2) External Assessment, (3) Assessment of the Teaching Conditions (ACE), and (4) National Exam of Students’ Performance (ENADE). Among these tools, the third one – ACE – was picked out for the research, and among all the courses offered by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), the concentration was on its Accounting Course (CCN). Thus, the goal of the research is to simulate the assessment of the Accounting Course of UFSC in the second semester of 2004. For the achievement of such a goal the methodology used can be classified as exploratory. As regards data collection, the tool used was the closed questionnaire, whose construction was based on information contained in the “Manual de Avaliação do Curso de Ciências Contábeis” (Manual of Assessment of the Accounting Course), organized by “Instituto Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisas Educacionais – INEP” (National Institute of Teaching and Educational Research) and applied in five axes of assessment. The result of the research is intended to be used in exploring the contribution given by the simulation so as to answer the following question: bearing in mind the result that arose from the simulation of the assessment process, which improvement actions can be recommended aiming at the global betterment of the Accounting Course of UFSC?