Os produtos e processos educacionais dos programas de pós-graduação profissionais: proposições de um grupo de colaboradores

One of the main discussions around the professional modality for the Education Area is the understanding about the Educational Product (PE) and its validation considering the criteria adopted by CAPES for the four-year (2017-2020) evaluation of the technical-technological production (PTT). Due to this importance, during the midterm seminar of the Area, in 2019, Work Groups (WG) of PE and Professional Doctorate were organized, which worked in an integrated manner, in order to elaborate the concepts together. Based on the definition of PE elaborated by the Education Area, we detailed some possibilities of Educational Products and Processes that contemplate the typologies already defined in documents of the area and that in this work were organized having as reference the Report of the Technological Production WG of CAPES of 2019.  Thus, this article presents the report of the WG with the understanding about PE and a proposal with criteria aimed at the evaluation stage of Educational Qualis. Based on the experience accumulated by the Education Area, the discussions on PE held at the mid-term seminar and the study prepared by the technical report of CAPES, we propose a set of concepts that should support the analysis of PE. These concepts are synthesized in a model validation form with the objective of enabling a unified validation of PE by dissertation or thesis defense boards. Thus, we understand that a more detailed discussion on Educational Products can lead to a greater qualification of these, allowing the work developed in the Professional Postgraduate Programs to have direct reflections on the improvement of Basic Education.