Avaliação da educação superior: experiências e vozes docentes em uma análise de políticas e práticas

Abstract

This research aims at investigating the effects produced by evaluations of higher education in the configuration of this study field and in the development of evaluation politics and practicum of this education level. It has been analyzed through evaluation experiences lived by professors, the relations which are established between the evaluation politics and practicum and how the marks of these relations construct a value field which interfere in the production of mentalities and representations about higher education, its social function and, consequently, the formation of subjects. This qualitative research was carried out through interviews with professors who work in private and public institutions and have lived experiences as evaluators of courses and institutions, and also as participant subjects of internal and external evaluation processes in the institutions where they work. The experiences have attested that the mediator capacity of the evaluation process produce positive effects in the construction and reconstruction of politics and practicum. Among the attested effects, the evaluative capacity, nowadays present in the Brazilian higher education scenario, is stood out and has promoted changes in the construction of institutional projects, in the acknowledgment of the evaluation as a constitutive element of school culture and of its prospective reflection capacity. It has also been stood out the formative and formatter evaluation character which is constituted by communication and interaction processes in which by its multiple references and contradictions, strengthen the reflection and analyze capacity, urging the creation and recreation of acting forms of the subjects and the relations which sustain their conceptions and practicum.