Abstract

PAULA, Maria de Fátima de  and  AZEVEDO, Marcela Davino de. Institutional evaluation at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Avaliação (Campinas) [online]. 2004, vol.09, n.03, pp.51-73. ISSN 1414-4077.

The present article discusses the trajectory of the institutional evaluation with a focus on the Fluminense Federal University (UFF). In order to do that, we investigate the present debate about the institutional evaluation of higher education. The artic1e analyses the evaluation policy carried out by UFF before the evaluative processes implemented by MEC in the last few decades. The -main purpose is to discuss whether UFF has been reproducing the instrumental logic of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and of the international organisms, which consider higher education as a product to be sold in the market, reducing the evaluation system to a simple quantitative verification of results only serving as a form of control and fiscalization or whether this university has been searching its own forms of alternative institutional evaluation, building a permanent and continuous process of self-evaluation, with the active participation of the subjects involved in the university project. In a certain way, UFF has been looking for alternatives concerned with processes of self-evaluation. Nevertheless, with regard to the external procedures imposed by MEC, the Fluminense Federal University has been reproducing them and the resistance has been made by the student movement, especially by a few politicized undergraduate programs.

Keywords : Institutional Evaluation; Fluminense Federal University; Evaluation Concepts; External Evaluation; Self-Evaluation.

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