Name: JOSEFA MATIAS SANTANA
Publication date: 08/10/2020
Advisor:
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Role |
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| ITAMAR MENDES DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
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| ITAMAR MENDES DA SILVA | Advisor * |
| MARCELO LIMA | External Examiner * |
| RENATA DUARTE SIMOES | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: This study analyses how the Institucional Self-Evaluation is implemented as an instrument of university management in a Federal Institution of Higher Education (Ifes) and as a tool that promotes and induces institucional quality. Institutional Evaluation, as a State public policy, plays an important role for the quality of Higher Education. The institution of the National Higher Education Assessment System (Sinaes), in an integrative perspective, sought out to structure the evaluation of the Higher Education System, in a way to allow more effective monitoring of the planning and the actions implemented by each Higher Education Institution (IES). The Institutional Evaluation includes Self-Evaluation (or Internal Evaluation) and External Evaluation. It foresees that every IES must establish an Evaluation Committee (CPA) to conduct the self-evaluation process to identify and reflect on achievements and difficulties, and decide whether the improvements were deemed as necessary. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to verify the effectiveness of self-evaluation as a tool that promotes and induces institutional quality at Ufes. Seeking to achieve this purpose, the following objectives were established: to ponder about the trajectory made by UFES in the context of Higher Education in Brazil; to characterize the trajectory of Institutional Evaluation at at Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes); to diagnose the possibilities and the limits of carrying out the Institutional Self-Evaluation at Ufes; to identify management procedures at Ufes based on the results of the Institutional Self-Evaluation; meta-assess the Ufes Institucional Self-Assessment process; and to elaborate an educational product that proposes to offer instruments to the work carried out by the members of CPA and the Evaluation Committee of Educational Centers (CPACs). The importance of this study is in the possibility of allowing apprehension and appropriation of the diagnosis of the actions carried out based on the results of the Institutional Self-Evaluation, by the CPA, by the managers at Ufes, as well as the academic community as a whole. To support the debate, contributions published by authors in journals, articles, books, theses and dissertations were used. This is a qualitative research with a participatory approach, that uses bibliographic and documental sources, as well as content analysis. With the collaboration of active and retired public servants from Ufes, who work or have worked directly with Higher Education evaluation at the University, the Institutional Evaluation Journal was produced entitled with knowledge about the Self- Evaluation Process of the Federal University of Espírito Santo, for the members of CPA and CPACs, available at the institucional webpage, as reference public consultation material. The data analysis showcases that, gradually, the management at Ufes is being impacted by the Institutional Self-Evaluation. However, in order to contribute more effectively to the strategic planning, its necessary that its results are questioned by all sectors of institution, responding to the induction of central management with a more institutionalized character.
