A auto-avaliação institucional, questões e desafios

Abstract

The present work approaches the commitment with the quality of the teaching supplied in private Institutions of Higher Education (IES) and the reality in them lived. A great estrangement noticed between the pedagogic practice and the institutional objectives such as defined in internal documents. Looking for an approach of those two elements, institutional evaluation was chosen as viable road to get a diagnosis capable to drive to necessary changes in order to for the improve of the quality of the services rendered by IES. In this perspective, institutional evaluation is understood as a process of collection of data to promote an integrated project addressed for the improvement of the quality of the procedures and the present relationships in IES. In this way, it could be possible to reach the goals in having a school characterized by quality and excellence, focusing on a pertinent pedagogical project, with the selection of disciplines, facilities and didactic resources for the attainment of the intended objectives. With this concept of institutional evaluation in mind, it was studied the case of a Private Institute of Higher Education in the Federal District (IESPDF) whose evaluation system was inspired in the PAIUB, in order to identify the real importance of the institutional evaluation in the improvement of the academic management of the higher education in deprived institutions. For so much, Belloni was consulted (1987 AND 1998), Dias Sobrinho (1998,2000), Schwartzman (1996), Sousa (1999), among other, structuring the theoretical base for the development of the theme. The field research was executed through documental analysis and interviews, which allowed the conclusion that the institutional evaluation in the studied IESPDF is a processes still in construction and during it were was found many resistance and difficulties, but can allow besides the mere institutional diagnosis the correction of directions, in the intention of serving to the cause of the superior education, that is, perfecting the teaching, qualifying the teachers and fomenting competence for the citizens' formation for the life.