Abstract

GOUVEIA, Andréa Barbosa et al. Trajetória da Avaliação da Educação Superior no Brasil: singularidades e contradições (1983-2004). Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2005, vol.16, n.31, pp.101-132. ISSN 0103-6831.

This article recovers the history of external assessment for higher education courses in Brazil over the last two decades, and aims at identifying the mechanisms used by the Department of Education to build a national assessment system of higher education. For this purpose, we analyze the development of assessment proposals and experiences implemented in the country by looking at the debate that took place in the eighties involving the University Reform Assessment Program, the Study Group for Higher Education Reform, and the Institutional Assessment Program of Brazilian Universities. We also propose an interpretation for the National Courses Exam held between 1995 and 2003, and the challenges brought about by the National System for Higher Education Assessment created in 2004. An overview of this debate has allowed us to observe, on the one hand, that assessment is an old issue in Brazil and, on the other, that the discussion regarding assessment is marked by a controversy between a regulatory concept of assessment, which values the assessment product, seeking the development of a typical market rationality, and a formative concept of assessment, which values the assessment process, aiming at strengthening the social function of higher education institutions.

Keywords : Education Policy; Assessment; Higher Education.

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