Siting the discuss ion on the evaluation of postgraduation: the studies of the field by the field

Abstract

Even as the other levels of education, postgraduate studies in Brazil have undergone a process of significant expansion and with this, studies and debates on the subject have been increased, especially with regard to its evaluation process. Therefore, the present study aims to situate the debate about the evaluation of the postgraduate, based on the survey of the bibliographic production in studies published in qualified journals. Besides mapping the theme, the present analysis seeks to bring the main discussions present in this kind of production. The survey carried out on the evaluation of postgraduate studies allows to assert that there is no consensus in the debate, and opinions about the evaluation system differ, even though there is an emphasis on intellectual production in its different aspects. In this sense, “the field”, despite disputes, has yet to refer to performativity as a strategy to make the quality of Brazilian postgraduate students.