Abstract

GUERRA, Claudio M.. Use of the portfolio in the students dental preclinical training. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.4, pp.229-237. ISSN 2014-9840.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/S2014-98322014000400009.

Introduction: The schools of medicine in the world are reformulating their contents, strategies and curricular structures to integrate current trends in higher education. This will involve a change in the evaluation: traditional techniques are no longer consistent with the new curriculum models, if required a contribution to learning. The literature points to the portfolio as a tool for performance evaluation and stimulates learning. Its use in undergraduate medical education has not been explored extensively, finding little evidence of their specific application in dentistry. Materials and methods: It was decided its application in coincidence with the educational objectives of a course from the second year of the career of dentistry. The use of this tool, as a subject in the curriculum of the career of dentistry has the purpose that teachers and pupils get conscience about responsibility they must shake learning and teaching but giving value to the potentialities in the implementation of portfolio. It was done since meetings with teachers, interviews and surveys to the pupils. Results: student opinion surveys state that the portfolio significantly improved their learning and it was a good teaching tool, helping to reflect on their academic work. The teachers recognized the importance of space for student-centered approach, allowing analysis of its productions and its relation to the contents of the subject. Conclusions: After analyzing the results, it was demonstrated that portfolio is considered a tool that let enrich educational practices, creating new knowledge since pupils' constructions and teachers' participations.

Keywords : Dentistry; Formative evaluation; Portfolio; Reflective learning; Reflective teaching; Self assessment.

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