OPPORTUNITIES FOR IMPROVING THE TEACHING OF DISCIPLINES THAT COVER COST CONTENT: AN ANALYSIS FROM THE STUDENTS' PERCEPTION/OPORTUNIDADES DE MELHORIA NO ENSINO DE DISCIPLINAS QUE ABRANGEM CONTEUDOS DE CUSTOS: UMA ANALISE COM BASE NA PERCEPCAO DE DISCENTES

• Published in: Administração (São Paulo) 2017-05, Vol.18 (2), p.301
• Main Authors: Muller, Suzana Habitzreuter, Schuster, Herivelton Antonio, Zonatto, Vinicius Costa Da Silva
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Subjects: College students; Study and teaching; Surveys; Teaching
• ISSN: 2177-6083
• DOI: 10.13058/raep.2017.v18n2.535

This research verified the perception of students about the opportunities for improvement in the teaching of cost disciplines, based on the attributes of improvement proposed by Paswan and Young (2002). A descriptive research, from a quantitative approach using the information entropy analysis technique, was carried out by means of a survey with 172 students from the cost disciplines offered in the undergraduate courses of Business Administration, Accounting and Production Engineering of the investigated HEI. The results showed that the priority attributes for improvement in the cost disciplines in the different courses analyzed are related to: the adequacy of the academic degree of the professor who teaches the discipline; participation of students in classroom discussions; opportunities for students to interact during content exposure; content passed on by the teacher at an accelerated pace; readings difficult to understand; and checking the ways in which content is made available to learners. It is concluded that the observation of the improvement attributes proposed by Paswan and Young (2002) can be presented as an efficient management tool for HEI, assisting institutions, course coordinators and professors in assessing the determining attributes for teaching cost disciplines. Keywords: Teaching of Costs; Opportunities for Improvement; Quality Attributes. Esta pesquisa verificou qual a percepcao de discentes sobre as oportunidades de melhoria no ensino de disciplinas de Custos, com base nos atributos de melhoria propostos por Paswan e Young (2002). Pesquisa descritiva, com abordagem quantitativa, mediante uso da tecnica de analise da entropia informacional, foi realizada por meio de um levantamento com 172 discentes das disciplinas de Custos oferecidas, nos cursos de Administracao, Ciencias Contabeis e Engenharia de Producao da IES pesquisada. Os resultados encontrados evidenciaram que os atributos prioritarios para a melhoria nas disciplinas de Custos, nos diferentes cursos analisados, estao relacionados com: adequacao da titulacao do professor que ministra a disciplina; participacao dos discentes nas discussoes em sala de aula; oportunidades dos alunos interagirem durante a exposicao do conteudo; conteudo repassado pelo professor em um nivel mais acelerado; leituras dificeis de serem compreendidas; e, verificacao dos modos como o conteudo e disponibilizado para os discentes. Concluiu-se que a observacao dos atributos de melhoria, como propostos por P