INSTITUTIONAL EVALUATION EXPERIENCES IN BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES

the scientific production of the 1990’s

Abstract

This paper aimed to analyze the Brazilian scientifi c production on the institutional evaluation experiences published in scientifi c journals in the area of Education throughout the 1990s. The text is a cutoff of a postdoctoral research, of bibliographic character, whose object of investigation was the systematic literature review of the scientific production on the evaluation of Higher Education in Brazil, from 1990 to 2019. The mapping of productions was carried out at the Educ@ portal, which belongs to the Carlos Chagas Foundation, and in the portals of institutional journals, being used as search descriptors the following expressions in Portuguese: avaliação institucional [institutional evaluation], avaliação da educação superior [higher education evaluation] e avaliação do ensino superior [higher education evaluation]. It was found 415 articles on the researched theme, distributed in 32 journals in the area, which were classified into 13 thematic axes. Of these articles, 82 deal with institutional evaluation experiences, of which 25 were published in the 1990s, which was marked as the decade of evaluation in Brazil. The choice of the analysis of the 25 articles is justified by the relevance of these publications to the field of evaluation in Higher Education, in particular by theoretical production from the pioneering experiences of institutional evaluation carried out in the Brazilian Higher Education institutions. The analysis undertaken brings: the conceptions on institutional evaluation present in the articles; the methodological procedures adopted in the evaluation processes; the resistances found in the development of the evaluations and the attempts to create an evaluation culture; the main references that underlie the analyzed articles.