Valores organizacionais e percepção do docente sobre a avaliação institucional no contexto do ensino superior

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the predictive power of organizational values perception (self-transcendence, openness to change, conservatism and self-promotion) on the perception of institutional evaluation (educational tool and information, globality / institutions and institutional commitment). The research was attended by 101 teachers of a higher education institution located in central-west Brazil. The instrument used for data collection: Inventory profiles of organizational values (Oliveira & Tamayo, 2004), the scale of institutional evaluation perception (developed for this study) and the sociodemographic questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed in four steps. The first step was performed a factor analysis (PCA - principal components analysis with varimax rotation) on the scale of perception of institutional assessment. In the second, there was a descriptive analysis of the variables organizational values and institutional evaluation. In the third part was the analysis of variance (Test T and Anova with LSD) between the demographics and study variables. In the fourth phase were carried out multiple linear regressions (stepwise) to verify the predictive power of organizational values on perceptions of institutional assessment. The results showed that: the perception of the assessment instrument showed good psychometric indices and final solution with three components (an educational tool and information, globality / institutions and institutional commitment). Referring to the descriptive analysis showed that the amount given priority by the institution's conservatism, according to the perceptions of teachers and the size of greater emphasis on institutional evaluation is the institutional commitment. Referring to the sociodemographic data showed that the variables type of relationship, participation in meetings, and time to the maximum degree of relationship showed significant differences regarding the organizational values perception, however, no variable had significant differences in sociodemographic dimensions of institutional assessment. The results of the linear regressions showed that the value openness to change predicts the size of the institutional assessment educational tool and information, the value of conservatism is a predictor of the overall size / institutional and self-transcendence value dimension and a predictor of institutional commitment. According to the results we can conclude that certain organizational values appear as a guideline for institutional actions, such as institutional assessment. However, it is important to extend studies to other higher education institutions in an attempt to confirm relationships observed.