Ten years of sinaes: a bibliographic mapping of master and doctoral thesis’ produced from 2004 to 2014

The National System of Evaluation of Higher Education (SINAES) was instituted in 2004, instead of the National Exam of Courses (ENC) known at the time as "Provão". In ten years of existence, the SINAES underwent several changes and became the object of research of numerous graduate programs in the country. The present study is an inventory of theses and dissertations on SINAES defended in the period between 2004 and 2014. We use the Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) and the Bank of Theses and Dissertations of CAPES. Results show that 101 works were produced in the period, most of them being on the 'institutional evaluation' axis and the minority on 'course evaluation'. Brasilia University is the institution that most produced on SINAES, with Professor José Vieira leading the largest number of researches, followed by the Federal University of Ceará and professor Wagner Andriola, respectively. Finally, such mapping allows a panoramic view of what has been produced about SINAES in the first decade of its existence: trends, recurrences, silences, places and people involved with this issue in the country.

Key-words:
SINAES; higher education; assessment