Pensamento Plural (Jun 2009)
The policies of institutional evaluation and their discourses in the Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s governments
Abstract
This work analyses the evaluation policies for higher education during Fernando Henrique Cardoso ́s and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ́s terms of office. The policy during FHC ́s term of office characterized itself by the concern with the institutional performance by means of isolated initiatives. Evaluation took on a quantitative character because it was based on the technical criteria which emphasized the control of the performance, according to an instrumental-economic logic. During Lula ́s mandate, the policy characterized itself by a systemic vision, SINAES being a result of the combination between the quantitative approach and the qualitative. The concept of evaluation presents itself as part of the discourse, within a progressive model, whose participative-democratic logic inserts itself in an evaluative project, which aims to produce social processes of the understanding. Thus, the situation points at the transition of models, which has made it possible for the appearance of another vision of evaluation and education.
