INSTITUTIONAL SELF-ASSESSMENT: THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE OWN EVALUATION COMMITTEE (CPA) PUBLISHED IN SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION (2004-2020)

The present work presents the result of a research that analyzed the production of knowledge about the Own Evaluation Commission (CPA) published in scientific journals in the area of education. The theoretical framework is based on the production of renowned authors who deal with the institutional evaluation of higher education, such as José Dias Sobrinho, Newton Cesar Balzan, Denise Leite, Maria do Carmo de Lacerda Peixoto, among others. Methodologically, a bibliographic research was carried out in the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) databases and in the Portal Educ@ online education publications of the Carlos Chagas Foundation, being considered as search descriptors the words: CPA, Own Evaluation Commission, and Higher and Institutional Self-Evaluation. In the research, 41 articles were found in SciELO and 41 in Portal Educ@, from which we selected 13 articles that dealt specifically with the theme of interest of this research. The data obtained show that most of the publications on the theme in focus were concentrated in the Revista Avaliação, with its authors being diverse and also its institutions of origin. The work on the Own Evaluation Commission reveals that it plays the role of coordinating, planning and articulating the internal evaluation process of the HEIs. Furthermore, the studies highlight that these commissions are crucial for the development of self-assessment proposals that count on the participation of the entire academic community, with the aim of defining evaluation strategies that contribute to the greater improvement of the quality of teaching in an organized and plural way.