The dimensions of institutional self-evaluation: building networks of networks

• Autor(a) principal: Nunes, Lina Cardoso
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Título da fonte: Ensaio (Rio de Janeiro. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.cesgranrio.org.br/index.php/ensaio/article/view/593
• topic: Red de relaciones; Auto-evaluacion institucional; Universidad; Relationship network; Evaluation process; University; Redes de relacoes; Auto-avaliação institucional; Universidade

The aim of this article is to present some reflections on the relationship network that is established under the ten dimensions approached by the Sistema Nacional de Avaliação do Ensino Superior - SINAES (Brazilian National System to Assess Superior Education) at the contemporary scene. All of the ten dimensions are inter-related in the university resulting in personal, ideas, facts, and practices networks. They are networks of networks. These nets are made up of a complex mesh that requires from the community the knowledge of the identity of the university culture, with the commitment of ethically garanteeing the accuracy of reports from all social players envolved with the assessment. Considering the evaluation of a large structure institution, there is an enlargement of difficulties for accomplishing, in all dimensions, a coherent and a consistent assessment process, taking in account administrative and academic aspects in the evaluation process analysis. This is the task to be accomplished by administrative and academic institutional groups enforced by the internal committee for assessment (CPA) and by operational coordination for pedagogical issues (COP).