ABSTRACT
This article deals with the issue of quality in education research, in two programs of graduation in education in two institutions in the south of Brazil: the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR). The study had the aim of understanding the meanings and the space assigned to the quality in/of educational research, among graduate students that defended their theses and dissertations in the biennium 2013/14, from the perceived concern that doctors had (or didn’t have) in the composition of their dissertations. We also studied which criteria and strategies were adopted for the sake of quality, as well as which elements show that those can be considered of quality. To carry out this study, we used online qualitative research through the internet, with basis on Flick, by the way of a questionnaire sent by email to the subjects as a data production tool. The results point to the fact that the graduated doctors who responded to the questionnaire - in UFSC and UFPR - observe the strategies conductive to quality throughout the research process, even before its beginning proper. This allows me to declare that the quality in/of qualitative research in education is a concern among the students of these universities, being built from the "inside"; that is, the subjects/graduated doctors themselves.
Keywords:
Education; Qualitative research in education; Online qualitative research; Quality.