Assessment of University External Internships. Towards a Mixed Model for Measuring the Acquisition of Skills and the Satisfaction of Parties Involved

The continuous improvement of management and assessment processes for curricular external internships has led a group of university teachers specialised in this area to develop a mixed model of measurement that combines the verification of skill acquisition by those students choosing external internships with the satisfaction of the parties involved in that process. They included academics, educational tutors of companies and organisations and administration and services personnel in the latter category. The experience, developed within University of Alicante, has been carried out in the degrees of Business Administration and Management, Business Studies, Economics, Advertising and Public Relations, Sociology and Social Work, all part of the Faculty of Economics and Business. By designing and managing closed standardised interviews and other research tools, validated outside the centre, a system of continuous improvement and quality assurance has been created, clearly contributing to the gradual increase in the number of students with internships in this Faculty, as well as to the improvement in satisfaction, efficiency and efficacy indicators at a global level. As this experience of educational innovation has shown, the acquisition of curricular knowledge, skills, abilities and competences by the students is directly correlated with the satisfaction of those parties involved in a process that takes the student beyond the physical borders of a university campus. Ensuring the latter is a task made easier by the implementation of a mixed assessment method, combining continuous and final assessment, and characterised by its rigorousness and simple management. This report presents that model, subject in turn to a persistent and continuous control, a model all parties involved in the external internships are taking part of. Its short-term results imply an increase, estimated at 15% for the last course, in the number of students choosing curricular internships and, for the medium and long-term, a major interweaving between the academic world and its social and productive environment, both in the business and institutional areas. The potentiality of this assessment model does not lie only in the quality of its measurement tools, but also in the effects from its use in the various groups and in the actions that are carried out as a result of its implementation and which, without any doubt and as it is shown below, are the real guarantee of a continuous improvement.

A formação do administrador e o papel da empresa júnior: caso FGV/EAESP

Empresas inseridas em um contexto competitivo e dinâmico buscam, por meio de diversas formas e estratégias, sobressaírem sobre as demais. Diferente de como era compreendido, o ambiente de trabalho considera que o empregado não se limita mais a receber e executar instruções. Hoje, esse profissional é valorizado pelas suas competências e, mais ainda, pela forma como ele as mobiliza. Nesse contexto, o presente estudo buscou analisar a percepção dos alunos da FGV-EAESP sobre como a formação diferenciada, por meio da atuação em empresa júnior, contribui no desenvolvimento de competências profissionais do formando em administração de empresas. Foi utilizado como aporte teórico a literatura sobre aprendizagem e competências. Metodologicamente, a pesquisa possui uma abordagem qualitativa e interpretativista. A coleta de dados foi realizada por meio de entrevistas, de forma semiestruturadas, com trinta e um respondentes, composto por alunos e egressos da Instituição de Ensino. Para a análise dos dados coletados, foi utilizado a técnica de análise de conteúdo, gerando catorze categorias intermediárias e cinco categorias finais. Como resultados, foram identificados, objetivamente, como se dá aprendizagem e desenvolvimento de competências profissionais dentro do contexto de aprendizagem proporcionado pela EJ, bem como quais delas são relevantes para atuação no mercado de trabalho.

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