This study turned to the institutional self-assessment as one of the components of the National System of Evaluation of Higher Education (Sinaes), having as objective to understand the effects of the accession of the State University of Goiás (UEG) to evaluation policy and its implications as mediation for the search of quality. The theoretical reference used sought the conceptions about the state, mainly the reflections Marxists and Weberians, enabling the understanding of the State of the construction of the evaluator and public policy evaluation in the context of regulation and control, contrasting-if the formative evaluation process for the search of quality. This research has analyzed the process of self-assessment of UEG between 2008 and 2013, considering the characteristics of the institution in which the policy of evaluation of the SINAES has materialized. Also investigated the senses and meanings attributed by the academic community of eleven campuses investigated the evaluation process, front to the planning of the institution. For the completeness of the general objective, sought to understand the changes occurring in the academic environment arising out of the results indicated in the reports of the assessment processes. We define ourselves by case study to focus the phenomenon that occurs in an institution of higher education (EIS) as possibility of revelation of prospects not yet discussed. Moreover, individuate the need for strategies for the construction of empirical research in a real context, with the use of open interviews, questionnaires, sky conditions and closed, besides observations that occurred during the whole trajectory of this research. To the knowledge of the historical movement from DSAD process of self-assessment, we used the method historical-dialectic materialism, propitiated by methodological categories: contradiction, mediation and totality. The senses and meanings of internal assessment process which in its turn, after demobilizing on management, culture of self-assessment and use of the results were evidenced as content categories. Along the research used were the manifestations of the central administration, self-evaluation Commission (CPA), managers, teachers, students and administrative technicians, with the purpose of apprehending knowledge that signaled the vision of the whole UEG. In the face of the analyzes and the interpretation of data confirmed the thesis that the institutional self-assessment still has much to move forward from the use of the results generated by the evaluation process, which offer all conditions for decisions that can converge in improvements to the EIS. However, the empirical data demonstrated, notably, the lack of commitment of the managers to with the evaluation process and the non use of results, although it is clear that the CPA strives for well what it is supposed to play: the coordination of internal assessment. The UEG joined the Sinaes and annually holds the collection of information about the dimensions that involve the institution, using...