Projeto Par [Student peer review]

PortugalBR Projeto Par – Revisão por pares na aprendizagem

O que é a revisão por pares na aprendizagem: No nível individual, é a aplicação da crítica por pares (colegas) como catalisadora do desenvolvimento da capacidade crítica e do senso de ética e responsabilidade profissional (além da habilidade para expressão escrita com objetividade, precisão e densidade de conteúdo). No nível coletivo/social, é uma estratégia para fortalecer as ligações de comunicação científica em uma comunidade educacional com vistas ao aperfeiçoamento da cultura científica dessa comunidade.

Nossa prática: A experiência iniciou em 1997, na disciplina Bancos de Dados do Curso de Ciência da Computação da UNIVALI, numa atividade conhecida como Congresso BD2. Já envolveu mais de 1000 participações de alunos em diversas instituições. Também foi aplicada na ASSELVI (Indaial-SC) e no PPGEP/UFSC (Florianópolis-SC). Atualmente, vem sendo aplicada e aperfeiçoada nos programas de pós-graduação PGCIN e EGC da UFSC. Cada estudante atua como pesquisador e autor de um trabalho, além de dar parecer crítico sobre o trabalho de colegas.

O que é o projeto: Este projeto de pesquisa interdisciplinar de longo prazo trata da investigação e desenvolvimento de modelos, métodos e ferramentas para favorecer a aplicabilidade e a efetividade da revisão pelos pares como método de avaliação em ciência e como abordagem pedagógica à aprendizagem. Os modelos devem permitir a representação computacional da produção discente e da informação relacionada, incluindo especialmente os recursos informacionais para avaliação do processo e do trabalho dos participantes. Os métodos visam a sintetizar a experiência local e internacional na forma de diretrizes de aplicação que favoreçam o sucesso da abordagem pedagógica, bem como as diversas formas de avaliação associadas (dos trabalhos originais, das revisões, de cada processo, de cada aluno através de diversos eventos). As ferramentas devem aliviar a carga burocrática e criar novos conhecimentos e novas oportunidades de aprendizagem e avaliação.

A seguir, as principais publicações (minhas e de colaboradores) e um quadro das rodadas realizadas de revisão por pares entre estudantes:

UKUS Student Peer Review

What is student peer review: It is the application of peer review, the main mechanism for evaluation and quality control in science, to an educational setting. In individual terms, it should help develop critical thinking and the sense of professional ethics and responsibility (besides exercising writing skills aimed at objectivity, precision, and density). Each student acts as author and refereee. In collective/social terms, it is a strategy to strenghten scientific communication bonds in an educational community with aim at enhancing its scientific culture.

Our experience: We begun in 1997, in a course on Databases at Computer Science/Univali, Brazil (undergraduate). Since then, we had more than 1000 student participations at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, in 3 institutions in Santa Catarina state. Current activities are being developed at the graduate programs in Information Science and in Knowledge Engineering and Management, UFSC, Brazil.

Our research project: Our interdisciplinary, long term R&D project deals with the investigation and development of models, methods, and tools aimed at supporting aplicability and effectivity of peer review in education and science evaluation. Models should allow for the representation of documents (e.g., works submitted for review, referee forms), processes (e.g., peer review rounds) and profiles (e.g., record of a student as author and referee through several participations). Methods should synthesize local and international experience in the form of guidelines for running and assessing original works, reviews, the process, and students through several participations in educational peer review. Tools should create new knowledge and new opportunities for learning and assessment, solve knowledge-intensive tasks, and alleviate the bureaucratic workload.

Next, our (myself and colleagues’) main publications related to this project and a summary of student peer review rounds I organized:

Lista de eventos realizados (nem sempre atualizada) [List of student peer review rounds (not always up-to-date)]

Year

Object

Sem/Trim

# people

Level

Grad. level

Course

Major / area

Institution

1

1997

papers

2s

20

undergraduate

Databases (5th of 10 terms)

Computer Science

UNIVALI

2

1998

papers

1s

24

undergraduate

Databases (5th of 10 terms)

Computer Science

UNIVALI

3

1998

papers

2s

16

undergraduate

Databases (5th of 10 terms)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

4

1999

papers

1s

18

undergraduate

Databases (5th of 10 terms)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

5

1999

papers

2s

22

undergraduate

Databases (5th of 10 terms)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

6

1999

papers

25

graduate

lato sensu

Information Modeling

Informatics for Business Management

ASSELVI

7

2000

papers

1s

19

undergraduate

Databases
(6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

8

2000

papers

1t

19

graduate

strictu sensu

Information Modeling Graphic Languages

Production Engineering

UFSC

9

2000

papers

2t

18

graduate

strictu sensu

Information Modeling Methodology

Production Engineering

UFSC

10

2001

papers

1s

15

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

11

2001

papers

2s

28

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

12

2001

papers

1t

31

graduate

strictu sensu

Information Modeling Methodology

Production Engineering

UFSC

13

2002

papers

1s

19

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

14

2002

papers

2s

28

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

15

2003

papers

1s

24

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Science

UNIVALI

16

2003

papers

2s

34

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

17

2004

papers

1s

30

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

18

2004

papers

2s

39

undergraduate

Databases (6th of 10 terms, 2nd course)

Computer Engineering and Computer Science

UNIVALI

19

2004

one month

32

graduate

lato sensu

Technical-scientific Communication and Assessment

Software Development for the Web

UNIVALI

20

2005

papers

1t

35

graduate

strictu sensu

General Systems Theory

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

21

2005

2t

49

graduate

strictu sensu

Research Methodology

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

22

2006

papers

1t

82

graduate

strictu sensu

General Systems Theory

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

23

2006

theses proposals

whole year

67

graduate

strictu sensu

Research Seminars (curricular)

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

24

2007

papers

2t

60

graduate

strictu sensu

General Systems Theory

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

25

2007

theses proposals

3t

54

graduate

strictu sensu

Research Seminars (curricular)

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

26

2008

UML models

1s

25

undergraduate

Databases (5th of 10 terms)

Computer Science

UNIVALI

27

2008

Schema normalization

1s

25

undergraduate

Databases (5th of 10 terms)

Computer Science

UNIVALI

28

2008

papers

2t

50

graduate

strictu sensu

General Systems Theory

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

29

2008

theses proposals

whole year

66

graduate

strictu sensu

Research Seminars (curricular)

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC

30

2008

CommonKADS+CESM (Bunge) models

2t

18

graduate

strictu sensu

Systems Modeling

Knowledge Engineering and Management

UFSC