The Curricular Alignment as a Technical Challenge for Educational Quality

Abstract

This work is propose a methodology that relies on information and communication technologies to develop curricular frameworks with coherent, congruent, pertinent and perfectly aligned study plans and subjects, resulting in more efficient and dispersed learning. cognitive reduced to the maximum. This perspective refers that the curriculum developers are in the same paradigm that has not changed much from the beginning. The alignment or curricular alignment is considered here as the intentional, logical, psychological and operational sequencing that articulates the contents, the objectives, the perspectives and the applicable methodologies, through the use of a technology that guarantees the integrated flow, both of educational Principles and Foundations, as well as knowledge, values, habits, attitudes and prescribed aptitudes. Thus, the alignment was achieved with analytical methods of computer technology, from a spreadsheet to sequencing programs, optimization and graphing by network theory. The source of the data is the authors' practice in professional design work of the programs design og two doctorates, eight masters, one bachelor's degree, and two general secondary programs. In the main results of these studies, a reduction in the cognitive dispersion of the curriculum has been observed.