Aportes teórico-metodológicos de uma pesquisa avaliativa: considerações a partir do estudo do REUNI na UFT

Abstract

This paper examines the conceptual and methodological issues related to the evaluation of social policies and programs, as well as the presentation of the methodological procedures and main results of an evaluative study of the Support Programme for the Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities - REUNI (Reestruturação e Expansão das Universidades) at Federal University of Tocantins - UFT. We present the necessary procedures to objectively assess a policy and the methodological resources to be considered in the evaluation of public policy, then we present the concept and steps for conducting an evaluation research in depth, based on four axes namely: content analysis of policy or program, including its formulation, its conceptual foundations and its internal consistency; institutional trajectory; the temporal and territorial spectrum; and the analysis of the context of formulation thereof. Finally, it describes the process of construction of REUNI evaluation research based on the notion of in-depth evaluation.