Psicologia Escolar e Educacional
Print version ISSN 1413-8557
Abstract
FREITAS, Maria Helena de Almeida. Some criteria for the evaluationof scientific production. Psicol. esc. educ. [online]. 1998, vol.2, n.3, pp.211-228. ISSN 1413-8557.
The aim of this paper is to analyze both the quantitative as the qualitative evaluation procedures of the scientific production in Brazil. Mainly in what respect to the peer review and the evaluation of the researches carried out by the govemmental agencies. It considers that the evaluation of the scientific production is carried out in all the professionallevels of the researchers career, without the establishment of clear and general criteria is not. It presents evaluation scales of scientific researches, being these considered as forms to establish rational criteria to the procedures of analysis, preventing the evaluation for not scientific criteria.
Keywords : Analysis ofthe scientific production; Peer review; Scales to assessing research.