Self-Assessment and Strategic Planning

The internal institutional evaluation (self-evaluation) is inserted in the context of the National System of Evaluation of Higher Education (Sinaes) which, established by Law No. 10,861 of April 14, 2004, has among its purposes the improvement of the quality of higher education and the expansion of its offer.

Self-evaluation, in line with the Institutional Development Plan (IDP) of the HEI, should be seen as a process of self-knowledge conducted by the Own Evaluation Committee (CPA), but which involves all the actors who work in the institution, in order to analyze the academic activities developed. It is a process of inducing quality in the institution, which should take advantage of the results of external evaluations and the information collected and organized from the IDP, transforming them into knowledge and enabling its appropriation by the actors involved. After all, the improvement actions to be implemented by the institution depend on its own understanding, on its own self-knowledge.

The HEI’s self-assessment process should be consolidated in the Institutional Self-Assessment Report, which aims to foster the culture of institutional evaluation and subsidize the external evaluation processes. To collaborate with the HEIs in this process, the Directorate of Higher Education Evaluation (DAES), of the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP), an autarchy of the Ministry of Education (MEC), with the guidance of the National Commission for the Evaluation of Higher Education (CONAES) suggests, below, the roadmap for the preparation of the Institutional Self-Assessment Report following Technical Note No. 065 INEP/DAES/CONAES of October 9, 2014.