Evaluation of documents in course conclusion works at UFSM

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to verify how the document evaluation function is approached in the Final Papers of the Archival Science Course of the Social Human Science Center of the Santa Maria’s Federal University. Through the research, it is seeking to identify and register the faculty position about the curricular reform, with emphasis on that of 2004. On the basis of the current curriculum, which came into force in 2004, focusing on the Final Papers and on the evaluation function, as well as knowing the history of the “documents evaluation” discipline, its goals, the instructors, and the references, it was analyzed that from 198 Final Paper works in the period from 2005 until 2015, only three held “evaluation” as a keyword and/or brought it to the title in the archival function sense. From the gathering of the dates conducted with the interviewee and with the curriculum evaluation, it could be known that the course is being developed and perfecting its academic activities, as well as the evaluation discipline has been followed, the new trends, and was given a spotlight over time. It was verified that the works have a deep study, for the approach concerning the function evaluation was analyzed under the various aspects of the archival systems. Knowing what is being produced about this topic might lead to new research, aiming at the qualification of the Course and the research areas.