The ENADE’s Chaining‑Bias in Higher Education in Brazil

Abstract

ABSTRACT. The objective of this work is to verify the ENADE
‑ National Student Performance Exam as the main tool used by the
Ministry of Education (MEC) to assess, in his point of view, the quality
of undergraduate Courses in Brazil, adopted by the SINAES ‑ National
Evaluation System of Higher Education (Law 10861 April 14, 2004).
Those eight years in which ENADE came into force were surrounded
by many uncertainties and criticism, even sparking a revolution in
IES (institution of higher education ‑ Undergraduate Course) in the
national territory of Brazil. It evaluates the performance of students at
the beginning and end of their graduation through evaluative cycles
established by the MEC. It is the largest input in the composition of
the CPC ‑ Preliminary Program Rating and the IGC ‑ General Index
for programs. It has undergone several changes and now, as the overall
result of the marks obtained by students entering and graduating,
settles if a course is of good or poor quality. This is the great bias of
this evaluation, regulation and supervision policy adopted by the
government, forcing institutions to better understand it and prepare
for these cycles; otherwise, they have to pay a very high price for poor
performance of students, passing from one supervision and even the
closing stroke your superior course of undergraduate with a CPC 2
or less, in a note that ranges from 1 to 5.