Database of questions of the Institute of Ceará: a web system to help student assessment in higher education

Abstract

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), as agents acting in society, play an indispensable role in the formation of students, because in addition to the technical knowledge they must offer, they must also focus their work on the development of competences and skills aiming to transform students into protagonist beings. and proactive in the context in which they are inserted and in life itself. The present work is an original work and has as technical procedures the bibliographical, documentary and experimental research. It is an applied research of empirical study and quantitative approach. The aim of this paper is to verify if an online software that maintains a database of higher education issues can assist the teacher in diagnosing competencies and skills that need to be reinforced. Through research on the use of tools that positively impact the students' teaching-learning process, it was found that these tools can serve as an aid and improvement in the teaching-learning process. To achieve the objective of the work, a web system was developed for the centralization of questions with the same structure as the Enade (National Student Performance Examination) questions. The IFCE Question Bank was validated through an online questionnaire that aimed to verify the veracity of the tool against its objectives and the intention of its use in the classroom.