Abstract:
This article has the purpose to discuss the meaning of the Sinaes external institutional evaluation instrument, and to analyze, from the view of the actual tool, the evaluation’s effects produced by the quality indicators created in 2008. First, it discusses the relevance assigned on that instrument to Institutional Development Plan and to self-evaluation. Second, it compares the Institutional Concept, institutional quality, and the General Courses Indicator, a reference of quality extracted from the National Survey of Student Performance, as procedures for evaluate that plan. The comparison is based on the evaluation’s results of 116 higher education institutions, whose courses obtained satisfactory CPC in three Sinaes’ evaluations cycles, showing its similitudes and differences. The conclusions indicated that the disconnected publicizing of IGC and of the institutional concept expresses the little relevance attributed to IDP in the evaluative process and even in the institutions management. It suggests that Sinaes improvement demands a more organic treatment of the system’s components, and introducing of changes in its publicizing way.
Key words:
Higher education evaluation; Sinaes; Self-evaluation; Institutional Development Plan
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