The qualitative research on Public Evaluation Policy on Higher Education-The National Evaluation System of Higher Education (SINAES)- aimed at two objectives: to examine how the internal evaluation system has been constructed at the Bahia State University and how well it functions. Documents were examined and members of the internal evaluation commission, the sectorial evaluation commission, and university administrators were interviewed to analyze what top administrator and members of both commissions would say about the internal evaluation process under SINAES regulation and about the development of an evaluation culture at the university. The research was developed at Campus I, in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, between the second semester 2007 and the first semester 2008. Data analysis indicate: difficulties with communication, lack of knowledge regarding evaluation among members of all commissions and lack of support of the higher administration evaluation activities.
Public evaluation policy for higher education; Inside institutional evaluation; The National Evaluation System of Higher Education-SINAES