Evaluate progress, the sense of evaluation in the academic context of distance education is an argumentative essay in which they seek to make a contextualization of what the scientific community - academic assessment is understood by and in turn show how the evaluation process should be aimed at training institutions so that these processes have meaning and significance. We performed a comparative study of the treatment (4) four representatives of the scientific community - academic evaluation give to understand it. Methodologically, uses a type of descriptive research documentary research, having as a population of four (30%) of the twelve (100%) most significant and representative authors of the scientific community - academic, using content analysis as a technique for collecting and using four categories of analysis such as design, focus, relevance and application of evaluation in the academic context. The paper proposes to make the evaluation as ballistic, saying in all the functions it performs, this means not stay only in relation to student learning, but to an insight into the culture of evaluation as a process to improve quality of life and quality of education in a comprehensive manner contributing to the formation of human
