Abstract

GASPARETTO, Agenor. Avaliação institucional: processo doloroso de mudança; a experiência da UESC, Ilhéus, Bahia. Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 1999, vol.04, n.03, pp.73-84. ISSN 1414-4077.

Institutional Evaluation is a process of culture making, of continuous search for modernization and self-improvement by the subject-agents of institutional self-regulation, at the level of power and system structures, as related to the changes taking place in the economy, science and technology. It presupposes the involvement and the willingness of each subject-agent to look for higher levels of quality and relevance for their activities. This is probably the safest route for the construction of university autonomy. It consists of a process of change and improvement which is slow, gradual, with gains and losses, of refusing to accommodate, of committing oneself to the future. At the subject agent level, change is translated into the reconstruction of professional and pedagogical projects, and to some extent of the projects of the lives of each individual. At the power and system structure level, change translates itself into efficiency and efficacy as related to the operational plans, the institutional development plans, in the functioning of self-regulation mechanisms. The more the life and professional projects and the operational and strategic plans become an expression of institutional evaluation, the more the evaluation culture becomes rooted and consolidated. Therefore, it is fundamental that this evaluation not reward or punish the subject-agents. It shouldn't, however, be neutral or allow anybody to remain indifferent or out of the process. The State University of Santa Cruz has already moved a few steps in this direction, but a lot still remains to be done.

Keywords : Institutional Evaluation; Culture of Change; University Autonomy.

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