This text is related to the PhD dissertation entitled “Policy Institutional Assessment in Vocational Education Technological Literacy: Faculties of Technology Paula Souza Center, in São Paulo”. The study was based on the principles of qualitative research in education, and theoretical and methodological studies in the field of education policy and management; public policies and sociology of education (evaluation). The paper discusses institutional evaluation within the legal context, following LDB 9394/96 and complementary legislation. Thus, the objective of the study is to reflect on how the concept of evaluation, in its different forms and purposes, is considered by educational policies in legal acts, as well as to analyze appreciate the value given to evaluation in the context of the State Administrative Reform apparatus.