Avaliação: Revista da Avaliação da Educação Superior (Campinas)
Print version ISSN 1414-4077On-line version ISSN 1982-5765
Abstract
SANTOS, Nálbia de Araújo and AFONSO, Luís Eduardo. Content analysis of evidence area accounting: issues Provão 2002/2003 and ENADE 2006. Avaliação [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.2, pp.387-413. ISSN 1982-5765. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1414-40772016000200005.
This study has two aims. The first is to search evidence whether the Provão of the 2002/2003 and ENADE/2006 in the area of Accountancy included all items that adequately represent the content domain of the area. The second aim is to do a critical analysis of these performance tests. We used the focus group technique to obtain these aims. "Two sessions of interviews were held, with the participation of experts, formed by teachers who are also másters and PhD students. The results show that participants' perception of the focus group tests can be considered an adequate approximation of the level of cognitive knowledge of the area, since the main contents were assessed by tests. However, in the participants' perception the questions tests not adequately measured the skills, attitudes and behaviors predetermined by committees of specialists, appointed by the Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisas Educacionais Anísio Teixeira (INEP). Participants noted that the low student performance may be related to reduced motivation to solve the proof.
Keywords : Accounting; Focus group; Provão; ENADE; Achievement tests.