Sistema nacional de avaliação da educação superior: a avaliação externa a partir da prática dos avaliadores ad hoc do INEP

Abstract

This research theme is the evaluation of higher education and as an object external evaluations within the National System of Higher Education Assessment (SINAES). The objective is to analyze the model of external evaluation, adopted by the Ministry of Education (MEC), from the practice of ad hoc reviewer of the National Institute for Educational Studies and Researches Anísio Teixeira (INEP) under the principles and criteria provided by SINAES. The development of the research took place from information gathered through interviews, questionnaires, legislation, reports and instruments for external assessment, in order to verify the contribution of evaluators in the performance of their activities for the realization of the principles and criteria provided in SINAES. Through the data collected, we can trace the profile evaluator presenting the legal apparatus that instituted this actor, his role and his performance in loco visits as well as their training and subjectivity in the act of evaluating. The dissertation presents the historic of higher educations appraisal from the Evaluation Program of the University Reform (PARU) to the current system, SINAES; presents and discusses the current assessment instruments, the modus operandi of the external evaluations, preliminary concepts of higher education and their implications for the external evaluation. Finally, it analyzes the principles of SINAES, relating them to legislation, reports and evaluation tools, also the practice by the ad hoc reviewers and the data collected through questionnaires and interviews. With this correlation, we seek to analyze the applicability of each of the principles of SINAES in loco reviews, and how evaluators experience and contribute to the realization of the same procedures used in external evaluations. The study reveals that the external evaluations and the performance of ad hoc reviewers actually contribute to the effectiveness of the principles of SINAES. However, the significant simplification in procedures that involve in loco evaluations partially commit the compliance of these principles.