THE POSTGRADUATE EVALUATION POLICY IN BRAZIL

a documentary study (1998-2018) from the field of Education

Abstract

The present paper is aimed to identify the paradigm that supported the action of the groups responsible for the elaboration of the postgraduate evaluation system and to understand the international, national, and local infl uences and trends present in the construction of the Brazilian educational scenario that made possible the emergence of the current postgraduate policy. As for the data collection procedures, the websites linked to the Brazilian Ministry of Education were consulted, especially the CAPES website, from which several documents that supported the consolidation of the National Postgraduate System in the last twenty years (1998- 2018) were collected, among them, the documents that guided the postgraduate assessment processes in the country in this period, focused on the National Postgraduate Plans, the Assessment Forms, and the Education Area Documents, as well as the programs that off er academic master’s and Ph.D courses. It was concluded that, as a policy of inducing expansion and development of domestic graduate studies, the system proved to be effi cient, however, there are no elements that prove the increase in the quality of programs and research, since the evaluation indicators focused on quantitative criteria, especially on publications in scientifi c journals, introducing a productivist and competitive culture articulated to the principles of managerialism, incorporated in Brazilian public administration in recent decades.