Effects of the Pandemic on pedagogical mediation from the point of view of the National Student Performance Examination (ENADE): the case of the Degree in Distance Pedagogy
Pandemic; distance higher education; pedagogical mediation; evaluation systems; ENADE.
The repercussions of the Covid 19 pandemic are, from the beginning of 2020, devastating for world societies and will be felt for a long time to come. This phenomenon is already written in history as one of those that produced the most deaths, indistinctly, in all populations of all continents. Furthermore, it seriously affected the world economy, leaving an uncountable number of families decimated and people physically and psychologically damaged. From the beginning of the health crisis and while there were no vaccines or medicines, the public authorities imposed social isolation. Professional, commercial and educational activities were compulsorily interrupted in their face-to-face form. Only emergency services worked. This situation seriously affected education systems around the world, sowing and producing incalculable educational deficits. Even with all the efforts to mitigate the lack of face-to-face classes, those that suffered the most were the systems that had historically submitted to various challenges, such as Brazil. The research in question shows, through official data on evaluation, some of the consequences produced by the compulsory removal of students from the school environment at the time of the pandemic from the point of view of pedagogical mediation in higher education. It is a temporal cut having as object of study the Licentiate in Pedagogy course, with emphasis on the distance modality. It is hoped that the results found in this work can contribute so that education systems have the possibility to review and improve policies to reduce learning damage left by this terrible historical moment. Implicit in this work is the great importance of the permanent performance of educational evaluation policies, such as the National System of Higher Education Evaluation (SINAES), which are not absolute to deal with educational challenges, but which represent one of the beacons that corroborate education. of quality