Programa de Educação Tutorial no Brasil: estudo de caso no curso de Sistemas de Informação do Rio Grande do Norte

Abstract

The Tutorial Education Program (PET) was established in 1979 with the aim of improving the quality of student education through teaching, research, and extension activities. To this end, PET has groups spread throughout the country, one of which is the focus of this research: PET CoUrSe, a group for students in the Bachelor’s program in Information Systems at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), in Caicó/RN. Considering the importance of technology courses for the professional market, the significance of PET for students and higher education institutions (HEIs), as well as the scarcity of studies on the perspectives of PET participants in technology-related courses, this study aims to analyze the perception of current and former members of PET CoUrSe regarding the importance of PET in their academic and professional development. For this purpose, bibliographic research, document analysis, participant observation, and field research were conducted, using a questionnaire as a data collection instrument. Responses were received from fifteen respondents, including both current and former members, allowing for quantitative analysis through descriptive statistics and textual analysis using the IRAMUTEQ software. The results demonstrated that respondents perceive PET as contributing to both academic and professional development, highlighting it as an initiative to be enhanced.