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MOIMAZ, Suzely Adas Saliba; AMARAL, Marcelo Augusto  e  GARBIN, Cléa Adas Saliba. Enade: a quantitative and qualitative analysis of national exams in Dental courses. Rev. ABENO [online]. 2017, vol.17, n.1, pp. 97-108. ISSN 1679-5954.

This study aimed to analyze the issues of the National Student Performance Exam (Enade) in Dentistry courses in relation to the specific component, and check the contents addressed in collective health. The research was conducted with analysis of ratings of 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013 Enade. The textual content of the statements of the issues of public health area was processed in IRAMUTEQ software and analyzed by lexicographical techniques such as Descending Hierarchical Classification and Words Cloud. The area with the highest number of issues was public health (28) which represented 23.33% of the contents of all examinations. Subareas administration and public policy and epidemiology in oral health presented 13 and 10 questions (10.83% and 8.33%) respectively. According to the qualitative analysis, 2.478 occurrences of words were found, and 798 different forms, with an average frequency of three words for each form in the textual corpus. Of these, 500 were found words matched by Ratings Hierarchical Descendants and that resulted in six different classes: public health, family health strategy, national survey, human resources, SUS and national oral health policy (PNSB). The PNSB class (21.4%) was the most prevalent, and characterized by the words: SB (45.3 c2), Brazil (37.7 c2) and Epidemiology (37.0 c2). The Public Health, and the contents of the National Oral Health Policy, Health Strategy and SUS, demonstrated to be of great relevance in the examination, which reinforces the direction presented in the National Curriculum Guidelines for Dentistry courses in Brazil.

Palavras-chave : Educational Measurement.; Education; Higher.; Teaching.; Dentistry..