Avaliação institucional no ensino superior: os desdobramentos de uma experiência avaliativa

Abstract

This paper aims to present the results of an experiment carried out in a private Higher Education institution, located in the state of São Paulo, chosen because of its 2010 program called Programa Saber em Redes; a program designed to monitor its participation in ENADE/SINAES. ENADE provides a national-centered institutional evaluation, establishing itself as an important strategic mechanism of the State to assess the quality of educational institutions. Thus, this is a qualitative study, based on interviews with participants of the program in order to better understand the institutional view of the evaluation process proposed by ENADE. The survey results show that respondents consider as positive the fact that ENADE fulfills its promise: measure student performance, provide higher education of better quality and offer a diagnosis of the IES reality. It is a guiding element to help rethink the curriculum practices critically and be committed to them. However, the respondents agree that the methodology is complex, does not respect social, regional and cultural differences, contributing to a particular curriculum to be legitimized in return. They agree that Programa Saber em Rede favored the development of a constructive evaluation culture in the IES because it enables decision-making from external indicators, avoids the stagnation of curricula and programs and prevents institutional complacence. Since the commencement of the program, diagnostic strategies and methodological optimization were developed through measures focusing on different interfaces between ENADE evaluative process and the pedagogical project of the institution undergraduate courses