A Pós-Graduação em Educação na Região Norte e a Capes : avaliação, indução e autoavaliação-planejamento

Abstract

The thesis discusses the processes concerning the evaluation of the stricto sensu graduate courses from the North Region and its difficulties in the democratization process of this educational level in comparison to other Brazilian regions. The research aims to understand the evaluation processes that condition the offer, the funding of scholarships and the induction of internal practices with locus in graduate programs in Education (PPGEs) in the North Region. The questions, concepts and results are put into perspective from the hermeneutics-dialectics method, qualitative approach, documental and bibliographic outlines, information from public and bibliographic platforms. The text is organized into two sections, the first has two chapters and discusses the evaluative action; the second has three chapters and is focused on the induction capacity of the evaluation. In the first chapter, we use the regulation, documents and evaluative data from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) to characterize the evaluation of PPGEs. The agency's endorsement for the accreditation of courses seems secondary in comparison to the performance and stratification of graduate programs, performed with the participation of distinguished members of the academic community in collegiality, arriving at consequences and conditions for accreditation in the National System of Graduate Studies. In the second chapter, we used evaluative data and the 2022 grants rules to demonstrate how the distribution of scholarships derived from the evaluation of PPGEs occurs. The model used since 2020 conciliates evaluative consequences with social criteria, which can provide a greater subsidy to graduate studies in less developed regions. Under this model, the PPGEs get more scholarships compared to the history of grants since 2009, but the grant's rules are (re)created annually, with no guarantees of continuity. In the third chapter, we used evaluation documents to identify the induction capacity of self-evaluation planning. We deduce that this induction is established by the evaluative criteria of the evaluation form and that self-evaluation-planning had been prioritized in growth from 2010 to 2020, both in evaluative weight and emphasis in documents of the Education area. In the fourth chapter, we conducted an integrative literature review on self-assessment-planning of/in the graduate programs using descriptors and title searches, combining the use of the Periodicos Capes Database with Google Scholar. We used the descriptors auto-avaliação (or) autoavaliação (or) avaliação interna (and) pós-graduação; self-evaluation (or) self-assessment (or) internal evaluation (e) graduate program; plan* (and) pós-graduação; plan* (and) graduate program. In the first search, we considered scientific articles published from 2017 to 2022 and in the second search also the other types of publications from 2011 to 2022. We analyzed 38 texts, of which most are national productions and highly guided by the regulation. In the fifth and last chapter, we prescribe the self-assessment-planning of the PPGEs based on the Coleta Capes sent in 2020. We identified a consolidation of self-assessment, while planning is still incipient, with few links between these instruments and those of the institution. However, the induction leads the PPGEs to be guided by external evaluation in local-national concertation. Our thesis is that the graduate program evaluation operates with the participation of the academic community under a model of the programs' performance comparison and stratification, causing them consequences, but it enables Capes to boost graduate courses in Brazil through evaluation. Thus, the results indicate that the evaluation exposes the weaknesses of graduate courses in Education in the North Region concerning other parts of the country but points out the lack of public policies that ensure investment in the process of graduate studies democratization.