Institutional self-assessment and its contribution to democratic decision-making

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Thiago Elias de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Lambert-de-Andrade, Nelson
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Vértices (Campos dos Goitacazes. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://editoraessentia.iff.edu.br/index.php/vertices/article/view/16184
• topic: SINAES; Institutional assessment; Institutional self-assessment; CPA; Institutional self-assessment reports; SINAES; Evaluación institucional; Autoevaluación institucional; CPA; Informes de autoevaluación institucional; SINAES; Avaliação institucional; Autoavaliação institucional; CPA; Relatórios de autoavaliação institucional

This article addresses the issue of institutional self-assessment from the use of reports prepared by an Own Evaluation Committee as a support instrument for democratic decision-making in a private Higher Education Institution, located in the southern region of the state of Minas Gerais (Brazil). The objective of this research was to analyze how the self-assessment reports for the 2015-2016-2017 triennium contributed to the construction of the Institutional Development Plan 2019-2023. This is a literature and document review, with a qualitative approach, of descriptive type. The results obtained demonstrate that the institution's management uses self-assessment reports as an instrument to support democratic decision-making in the construction of the Institutional Development Plan and to carry out academic-administrative actions in accordance with the notes made by the university community in the self-assessment. In the end, it is verified the existence of a democratic management in the institutional self-assessment process carried out by the Private Higher Education Institution.