Adherence of the IPEN post-graduation program dissertations to the ABNT norms

Abstract

The process of standardizing or normalizing "something" is a reality in various segments of society, from industry, commerce and even services require Technical Standards to confer a quality standard on any and all goods that are produced. The objective of this research was to verify the adherence of the Dissertations defended in the IPEN/USP Post-Graduation Program to the technical standards of ABNT documentation. We analyzed 85 dissertations made available in the Institutional Repository of the Institute, from 2007 to 2016; we chose to evaluate the adhesion of the Abstract, Literature Review, List of References and Page Formatting by means of a Likert Scale standard form. It was observed that 87% of the Abstracts presented were very adequate to the standards, against 12% that were very inadequate. The Literature Review was very adequate in 51% of the projects, although 27% presented as neither very adequate nor very inadequate (neutral). However, the List of References was inadequate to the norms in 69% of the projects. Finally, in the formatting format it was possible to observe that 56% of the projects were in agreement with the rules presented for paging. In this evaluation it was evidenced that the guide of the Institute has exerted a strong influence on the quality of the assignments, thus guaranteeing greater quality in the physical presentation of the dissertations of the IPEN Program.