Abstract

ARROYO, Daniela Munerato Piccolo  and  ROCHA, Maria Silvia Pinto de Moura Librandi da. Meta-avaliação de uma extensão universitária: estudo de caso. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 2010, vol.15, n.02, pp.135-161. ISSN 1414-4077.

From the interest in understanding the training of a university student as a future professional who should be able to act differently in different situations in his professional and personal path, with high social commitment, we understand that the university extension programs may play an important role in this regard. We chose as the field of research, an outreach program at a Catholic university, working for the social inclusion of people with disabilities from an interdisciplinary perspective, which has in its team teachers and students from different undergraduate programs. We consider the implementation of continuing education in institutions of higher education and highlight the importance of the evaluation of extension programs. We developed a meta-evaluation, aiming to reflect on what aspects of this evaluation may contribute to the training of students who participate in such programs. The main methodological procedure adopted was the analysis of documents (annual reports of the Center, assessment tools). Besides this, we conducted an interview with the Coordinator of the program to obtain additional information and clarification. We believe that putting in place a process to evaluate extension programs is a complex task and that gaps and contradictions must be analyzed carefully, for they may limit the contributions that the extension activities potentially have to the training of the students who take part in them.

Keywords : University Extension; Meta-Evaluation; Evaluation of University Extension Programs; Inclusion.

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