This article analyzes how the national evaluation of the basic school education has been historically inserted in the administration of the Brazilian educational system, together with the scientific construction of factors like quality, efficiency, equity and productivity. It considers the trajectory along twenty years which has built the Saeb-Evaluation System of the Basic Education established since the late nineties. Using the bibliographical reviews and the state of the art studies in this area, the research analyzes Saeb's focus and improvements. We argued that this evaluation politics has been developed as part of the new regulation and competitive administration politics in the context of the Evaluator State. Finally, we suggest topics as the reflection on conditions and change possibilities.
Evaluation of Educational Systems; Public Politics and Basic Educational Evaluation; Evaluator State and Education