O acompanhamento dos alunos egressos do Mestrado Profissional em Gestão e Avaliação da Educação Pública

Abstract

The present dissertation is developed in the scope of the Professional Master’s Degree in Education Management and Evaluation (PPGP) of the Public Policies and Education Evaluation Center of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (CAEd/UFJF). The first efforts regarding Brazilian postgraduate programs date back to the mid-1930s through some academic missions supported by foreign governments. In the 1950s, CNPq and CAPES, entities with the aim of strengthening and developing postgraduate studies in the country, were created. However, our postgraduate programs were only accredited after Parecer 977/65, known as Parecer Sucupira. Within this evolution, new methods of teaching were developed, with emphasis to the professional master’s degree. Those courses are part of the recent history of national postgraduate studies, representing a new teaching proposal, an alternative to the training of teachers-researchers with a practice-focused format, bringing academic production closer to the professional world and benefitting economic and social development. Nonetheless, as with another courses, in order to maintain its quality and promote continuous improvements, said courses must also monitor their alumni closely. This study is capable of demonstrating the effects and results on the professional and personal lives of those alumni and the institutions they may represent. It is within this context, aware of the significance and the gains this monitoring generates, that the management case presented here analyzed and discussed the monitoring of alumni of the Professional Postgraduate Program, Master’s Degree in Public Education Evaluation and Management – PPGP/CAEd/UFJF. The aims of this study are analyzing the monitoring of alumni carried by PPGP, discussing the significance of an effective monitoring of said alumni after their engagement with the program and also establishing continuous intervention and improvement actions related to the issues indicated by the applied research. Among said issues are the low numbers of alumni taking part in the research, their low academic production and the lack of an evaluation alongside the covenants that are a part of PPGP. We take as hypotheses the need and the significance of the validation of an effective alumni monitoring system, capable of identifying and providing information for the elaboration of a solid database able to subsidize future improvement actions focused on the development of the course and the benefit of future students. For such, we will use as a methodology bibliographical research, qualitative research, in-depth interviews and case study, and as instruments, besides all the bibliographical material, we will also use a semi structured questionnaire and a non-structured interview script.