Utilização da teoria da resposta ao item na análise do instrumento da autoavaliação institucional na pós-graduação da UFSM

Abstract

Institutional Self-Assessment has become a national requirement for Higher Education Institutions. Thus, the Institutional Self-Assessment process aims to build a permanent evaluation culture, allowing the results obtained to contribute to the management of the Universities, allowing actions to be implemented, providing the achievement of the strategic objectives established in the Institutional Development Plan. The objective of this work is to evaluate the quality of the items of the Institutional Self-Assessment instrument applied to students of the Postgraduate Courses of all Campuses of the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), from September 26 to October 31, 2016. The Item Response Theory (IRT) was used for the analysis of the instrument, using the One-Dimensional Logistic Model of two Parameters (ODLM2P). The study showed that all items of the instrument used in the Institutional Self-Assessment of the UFSM Post-Graduation Courses are adequate and consistent, since they present good discriminatory power and are positioned within the expected range of variation. As for the self-evaluation tool, it was noticed that the items that make up this instrument are, in general, easy to evaluate well, according to the results obtained, which, in fact, is a good result when it comes to Institutional Self-Assessment. This shows that the instrument used for the self-assessment of the students of the Postgraduate Courses is adequate.