O USO DE TECNOLOGIA DA INFORMAÇÃO NO PROCESSO DE AUTOAVALIAÇÃO DAS UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS FEDERAIS DO NORDESTE

Abstract

After a decade of implementation of the National Evaluation System and the completion of the institutional self-assessment as one of the components of that policy, it is necessary to investigate the instruments used in the assessment of public universities. In this perspective, this article aims to identify the impact of the use of information technology tools in the self-assessment of public universities, located in the Northeast of Brazil, to contribute to the development of self-assessment in the institutions and improvement of this national policy. Discusses conceptual aspects of education and technological development as well as on self-evaluation and the Institutional committee for assessment (CPA). It is characterized as a survey of exploratory and descriptive qualitative approach, based on the exploitation of primary resources, through the self-assessment reports of nineteen federal public universities Northeast, thus, intentional and non-probabilistic sample. The work results showed that 90% of the surveyed universities make use of some technological tool in your self-assessment process as an aid in the collection and analysis of data, which can be taken as one of the improvement possibilities of institutional evaluation instruments, contributing so, with the development of this practice in institutions and improving national assessment policy.