Through considerations on the development of self-evaluation in the context of the National Higher Education Evaluation System (SINAES), this article describes the experience of professors' who are part of the Self-Evaluation Committee of a private university in the state of São Paulo, discussing since the first involvements in evaluation processes to methodology settings, elaboration of data collecting techniques and disclosure of reports. Although it does not emphasize the results of self-evaluation, the description and analysis of this process take into account the impact of the creation of higher education evaluation indexes.