AVALIAÇÃO INSTITUCIONAL NA UNIDADE UNIVERSITÁRIA DE QUIRINÓPOLIS DA UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE GOIÁS (2005- 2010): PROCESSOS, SIGNIFICADOS E CONTRADIÇÕES.

Abstract

This thesis tackles the Institutional Evaluation at the Goiás State University (UEG), more specifically its processes, meanings and contradictions in the self-evaluation at the Quirinópolis campus (UnU/UEG the Quirinópolis). The general purpose is to analyze the selfevaluation processes implemented by the UEG Institutional Evaluation Support Committee (Comissão de Assessoria de Avaliação Institucional, CAAI), in the 2005-2010 period. The study axes have been organized focussing the Brazilian university, the evaluational status and the existing relationship among institutional evaluation, planning and management. Our references rely on the ideas of Teixeira (1999), Catani and Oliveira (2002), Coelho (2003), Chaui (2003), Santos (2008), Sguissardi and Silva Junior (1997), Santos Filho (2000), Afonso (2001, 2009) and Dias Sobrinho (2002, 2003). The fundamental axes, external and internal institutional evaluation and large scale exams, are supported by Dias Sobrinho (2000, 2003, 2005), Belloni (2000, 2003), Ristoff (2000), Afonso (2001) and Brzezinski (2001). The research problem relies on the following question: did the institutional evaluation, developed by the CAAI, in the 2005-2010 period, promote changes in the Institutional Development Plan (Plano de Desenvolvimento Institucional, PDI) at the UEG and in the management of the courses provided at the UnU/UEG the Quirinópolis? Our study method is based on the dialetical and historical materialism, since the institutional evaluation, planning and management, in the university, should be recognized as human practice, within a social context marked by contradictions. This is a qualitative research, namely a study case. The research procedures rely on documentary analysis, with the study of the PDI in the 2010-2019 period of six Institutional Self-Evaluation Reports elaborated by the CAAI researchers and the analysis of semi-structured interviews answered by deans in the departments of Biology, Physical Education, Geography, History, Language Arts, Mathematics and Pedagogy, in the period investigated. Our results show that the CAAI/UEG systematically carried out (year after year) evaluative processes in the 2003-2011 period, promoted continued formation in 420-hour specialization courses for 56 agents to perform in the institutional evaluation, elaborated novel research instruments, started the informatization of the evaluative processes to enable the self-evaluation, raised community awareness to develop novel evaluative processes and adopt democratic procedures with the participation of the entire UEG community. We conclude that there have been few changes in the institutional planning and teaching degrees, due to resource constraints for the UEG in the Goiás State, which has led to the suspension of working hours for the Institutional Evaluation Centers (Núcleos de Avaliação Institucional, NAI) to develop researches, unsatisfactory on-campus work conditions, mitigation of pivotal initiatives that guarantee teaching, research and extension quality, and an incipient institutional evaluation practice in the newly-created university. The contradictions are revealed not only by several obstacles faced during the period focused in this investigation (2005-2010), but also, by the managerial difficulty to use the self-evaluation results when it comes to institutional replanning and university management.