Self-assessment is an exercise in critical reflection essential for identifying the strengths and weaknesses of programs, aiming to reinforce actions or correct directions that can enhance the training process and the quality of intellectual production by faculty and students. In this sense, self-assessment requires the adoption of systematic mechanisms for data production and analysis that can provide consistency to improvement and strengthening actions for the programs. It is necessary to develop self-assessment, associating it with the program's strategic planning, in line with institutional policies supporting and enhancing stricto sensu graduate programs, through well-defined processes and instruments applied to current students and graduates. It is emphasized that, in self-assessment, it is of utmost importance to collect data that allows the program to evaluate the reach and extent of the training it offers, by monitoring the performance of its graduates, considering professional insertion, intellectual production, and other indicators that inform the impacts generated by the program in training human resources to act in society. (DOCUMENT ÁREA 41_LINGUÍSTICA E LITERATURA, BRASIL, 2019, p. 10)

The members of the Self-Assessment Committee (CAA) develop the following actions: raising awareness for the participation of all agents involved in the processes, planning the work to be carried out during the four-year period, developing self-assessment tools, defining the principles for self-assessment adopted by the program, defining approaches for evaluating current students, defining approaches for evaluating students who dropped out, defining approaches for evaluating graduates, defining approaches for faculty self-assessment, defining the uses of the results obtained in the survey, defining the frequency of data collection, and proposing solutions for aspects that need improvement.

The self-assessment committee of MEPLEM (2023/2024) is composed of the following faculty members: