Proposta de avaliação formativa para sessão tutorial de módulos clínicos

Abstract

Throughout the learning process, formative evaluation occurs in order to identify and apprehend the modes of meaning that are being constructed along the educational process. To assess it is necessary to have instruments that guarantee teachers and students the understanding and the monitoring of their academic development. In this sense, the current study aimed to develop an instrument of formative evaluation for opening and closing of the clinical modules, whose descriptors meet the need of reflection and clinical knowledge in Medicine course. The research was developed in the Medicine course of the State of Pará University Center, a private institution of higher education that embraces Active Learning Methodologies. The sample consisted of nine tutors of teaching from the fourth year of the Medicine course. The following instrument was used to collect data: Questionnaire for assessment of the formative evaluation worksheet - Clinical Modules, teaching version. Data were quantified using BioEstat 5.5 software and results with p ≤ 0.05 were considered statistically significant. According to the results, the average age of participants was 40.1 years, with teaching time in higher education between eight months and 12 years. Regarding the characteristics of the descriptors more than half (55.6%) of the tutors considered that the descriptors used were clear and objective, 88.9% (p = 0.0367) reported that the worksheet helped in teacher-student assessment. Regarding the safety of providing feedback to the students, 66.7% of the tutors judged that the instrument accomplished this goal and 77.8% considered that the worksheet helped the students in understanding the feedback. It is important to have an evaluation instrument that meets the specificities of knowledge for clinical modules. As well as, to provide greater security in the evaluation process and feedback between teacher-student and student-student.