摘要：This essay deals with the elements that contribute to the discussion of the aspects of the educational evaluation concept in its historical and sociological fundaments, verifying what are the reasons for the privilege of some methods in despite of others. It also works with the most important tendencies of the institutional evaluation in the world, relating them to the characteristics presented by the national instrument DATACAPES. Besides, it presents a preliminary suggestion of some elements the may be eventually considered, for the progressing of the research in evaluation in the post graduation law courses. It analyzes the quantitative and qualitative criteria of evaluation in its virtues, problems and questions. Finally, it considers the institutional difficulties in the relations between the micro and macro social system, in the context of the evaluation, as well as the inevitability of the taxonomy, the establishment and hierarchy of the goals in educational evaluation.
