The Graduate Program Self-Assessment Committee is an internal body of the Graduate Programs, responsible for coordinating and conducting self-assessment processes, with the aim of promoting continuous improvement in student training, academic production, and the program's social impact.
Aligned with the guidelines established by the CAPES Self-Assessment Working Group (GT) and the institutional Self-Assessment Committee (CPA), the self-assessment of UNIP's PPGA was conceived as a continuous and formative process, allowing the identification of its strengths and challenges, guiding its strategic planning, and promoting adjustments that ensure greater academic and social quality and relevance. Its main points are described in the program's internal regulations and are based on the following fundamental principles:
- Alignment of PPGA's self-assessment policy with the Institutional Development Plan—PDI;
- Formation of a committee composed of the coordinator, faculty, students, and staff to coordinate the self-assessment process;
- Data collection from graduate students through various instruments and methods, such as focus groups, interviews, questionnaires, meetings, debates, and workshops;
- Use, in the self-assessment process, of data collected from graduate students, the results of quadrennial evaluations, as well as data from program quality monitoring and its training process;
- Observation and identification of weaknesses, strengths, strategic challenges, improvements, and future developments;
- Preparation of partial reports on the implemented self-assessment process, highlighting especially evidenced strengths and weaknesses, as well as a list of possible future actions;
- Implementation, based on the obtained results, of an action plan to improve the management of the Program's outcomes;
- Publicize this policy through its dissemination on the Program's website.