Avaliação da qualidade percebida nas instituições de ensino técnico: um estudo no município de Lavras, Minas Gerais

Abstract

This dissertation has the intention to contribute to the understanding and evaluation of the perceived quality of educational services at the technical level. The research objectives were to identify the quality perceived by the students about the services provided by educational institutions of technical education in the city of Lavras, Minas Gerais, identify what students know and expect the quality of services, the market segments with distinct characteristics regarding the satisfaction and dissatisfaction with the services provided, and determine the gap between expected and perceived quality. Initially it was through literature review of theoretical references on aspects related to the service sector, technical education and quality of educational services, in addition to tools for assessing the quality perceived by customers through the SERVQUAL scale, discussing its applications, limitations and criticism. Second, the survey chose the type of survey data through adapted SERVQUAL scale in non-probability samples for trial. And a third time the data were analyzed using statistical techniques such as descriptive and multivariate analysis. Analyzing the results obtained, it was possible to verify the fulfillment of the objectives initially proposed, confirming that the model adapted SERVQUAL is suitable for the evaluation of the quality perceived by students, which allows the institutions of technical education identifying characteristics to be improved, to continual improvement of its quality.