The use of portfolio as a learning and assessment strategy in food and culture among students of Nutrition

• Grant number: 12/20509-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2013
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Baeza Scagliusi
• Grantee: Fernanda Sabatini
• Host Institution: Instituto de Saúde e Sociedade (ISS). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Baixada Santista. Santos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The eating act has broad dimensions that involve socio-cultural, historical, political, and economic contexts. In a current perspective, it is possible to say that the eating area assumes interdisciplinary qualities, requiring knowledge from several areas, such as Life Sciences, Social Sciences, and Food Sciences, to keep its characteristic of complexity. It is recognized, therefore, the need for the professional of Nutrition to bear a holistic, interdisciplinary, and humanistic formation to guide their actions and interventions. Objectives: To evaluate the portfolio as a learning and assessment strategy of the "Food and culture" topic. Methodology: It will be described and analyzed the portfolios of graduates of Nutrition from the Federal University of São Paulo - "Baixada Santista" Campus, who accomplished the module "Human Eating in Historic and Social Contexts" during the first half of 2011. As a complementary research tool, it will be conducted focal groups using a sample of these students. Data analysis: The portfolios analysis will be conducted from the quantitative perspective (number of delivered portfolios, distribution of grades, shapes, and rationales used to construct the portfolios) and qualitative (via representations of collective thought, using the collective subject discourse technique). This technique will also be used for further analysis of the discussions derived from the focal groups, aiming to build a picture of the collective imaginary.(AU)

Scientific publications

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SABATINI, FERNANDA; DA ROCHA PEREIRA, PATRICIA; DEVINCENZI, MACARENA URRESTARAZU; ABURAD, LUIZ; SCAGLIUSI, FERNANDA BAEZA. Nutrition students' experiences with constructing a portfolio about food and culture. NUTRITION & DIETETICS, v. 73, n. 1, p. 95-102, FEB 2016. (12/20509-2)