<b>Evaluative Culture: the impulse given by MERCOSUR to the consolidation of South American evaluation system
Abstract
South American higher educational institutions have experienced great challenges and transformations during the last decades especially with regard to the consolidation of educational quality. In 2008, MERCOSUR established the Higher Education Accreditation System (ARCU-SUR) aiming at a permanent evaluation of quality in higher education in associated and member countries. This fact also induced regional integration and social, educational, economic and intercultural development in South America. Positive effects could be perceived in regional evaluations, especially in Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay. According to König (2007), the capacitation of national peers and periodical evaluations of ARCU-SUR have strengthened the evaluation tradition in these countries. Another notable achievement of the system is the stimulus to establish National Accreditation Agencies in countries where no such institution exists. .
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