Desafios do Sistema Nacional de Avaliação do Ensino Superior (SINAES)

Carlos Eduardo Bielschowsky

doi:10.1590/SciELOPreprints.8297

Preprint / Version 1

Challenges of the National Higher Education Assessment System (SINAES)

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Carlos Eduardo Bielschowsky Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6157-4663

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.8297

Keywords:

Higher Education, Evaluation of Higher Education, National System of Higher Education Evaluation - SINAES

Abstract

At a time when SINAES celebrates its 20th anniversary, its main indicators show fragility to account for the current moment of higher education in Brasil, as a result of the concentration of enrollments in a few private groups with intense use of low-quality Distance Education (DE).

In this work, we show that the external evaluations that lead to the Institutional Concept (CI and CI-EaD), as well as to the Course Concept (CC), are not able to separate the HE Institutions that have been offering quality contributions to higher education and scientific research in the country, from those private companies that are focused on profit with low quality offer. We also show weaknesses in the CPC as an instrument for regulating the provision of higher education