EVALUATION IN EDUCATION: A STUDY ON THE INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES DURING FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO’S AND LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA’S TERMS IN OFFICE

Abstract

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