This article discusses the development of the evaluation process in Brazilian higher education regarding its conception, considering the path covered and the actions that are being implanted in the country, especially in the year 2008, "in the name of" SINAES. The new indicators inserted in the evaluation process are severely harming the Evaluation System that has the purpose of being process based, formative and emancipatory, seeking the improvement of higher education in Brazil.
Evaluation; SINAES; Educational policies