Avaliação da eficiência em cursos de graduação da UFSM

Abstract

With the growing transformation of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES), plus the opening of new federal universities and new courses, the need to know the level of quality of the education provided by these institutions arises. For that reason, this study aims to do a descriptive qualitative study about the performance of the graduate courses of the Center for Social Sciences and Humanities (CCSH), at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) , to check the level of efficiency of courses during the period from 2011 to 2013, by applying a non-parametric method known as Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and then, to show a situational diagnostic, taking into account inputs and products, known for inputs and outputs respectively. One of the reasons that justifies the need for this research is the compromise made by UFSM to the Federal Government in the moment of adhesion to the Plan of Reorganization and Expansion of Federal Universities (REUNI), which requires from the institutions the achievement of goals previously established in respect to the indices of academic performance in undergraduate teaching. In conclusion, the low performance efficiency was common in 75% of courses in 2011 and 2012 and 66,67% in the year of 2013. In 2011 and 2012, only 25% of analysis courses was considered efficiency and in 2013 this number was 33,33%. Ie, by the DEA technique it was shown that despite belonging to the same center, the courses did not have similar results.