Use of institutional self-assessment results by University of Brasilia managers

This study addresses the theme of policy and program evaluation. It is justified by the national belief in linearity between the performance of an evaluation and the use of its results. The selected program is the Institutional Self-Assessment (AAI), a component of Sinaes. The selected institution, UnB, was one of the pioneers in the field of AAI, whose experience served as a reference for the construction of subsequent national policies, such as the current Sinaes. The specific objectives of this research were: 1) to describe the facilitators and barriers in the use of the results of the AA of the UnB from the perspective of managers, and 2) to verify if there are relations between facilitators and barriers and the types of use of the results by the managers. Data were collected through a questionnaire and analyzed through content analysis and descriptive and inferential statistics. The results obtained allowed to identify the variables as potential barriers to the use of the results by the managers, revealing a wide focus of needs for improvements and interventions. The perception of such variables has a relation with the use of AAI results, since managers who evaluate such variables as facilitators are also those that report the use of the results. The present study contributes to filling gaps in the field of the use of evaluation results.

Key words:
Institutional self-assessment; Use of evaluation results; University of Brasília