Prototipação de uma ferramenta para o suporte à avaliação em fóruns virtuais de educação em saúde

Abstract

In recent years, studies on evaluation in forums have gained great renown in computing subareas, such as: informatics in education and collaborative systems, from the creation of resources as well as methodologies to improve the evaluation process, from the Productions and contributions made through the use of the forum. Besides the need to improve the evaluations in the forums, the context of this study, the one of health education, based on the application of the methodology of teaching and learning based on problem, still adds to the tool a methodological importance, since the discussion of health cases is a An important point of the PBL methodology, helping not only the construction of the knowledge that is already exposed, because it is also through this that the students are constructing some of the items contemplated by the methodology profile. Aiming for a solution to the problems encountered, this dissertation presents the proposal of a tool to assist the formative evaluation process, based on criteria extracted from the literature on the subject, which is done on the postings made in forums of virtual environments.