Abstract

BAUER, ADRIANA. “HOW ‘GOOD’ IS GOOD ENOUGH?” - DEFINING EVALUATIVE WORTH AND MERIT CRITERIA. Est. Aval. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.30, n.73, pp.14-43.  Epub July 16, 2019. ISSN 1984-932X.  https://doi.org/10.18222/eae.v30i73.5879.

This text discusses concepts associated with the notion of value and the action of valuing in program evaluation, considering the need to make judgments about the quality of a policy, program, project or social action that is inherent to it. It seeks to contribute to foment the discussion about valuation in the evaluation of social programs. To that end, it reviews the US and Brazilian literature in order to identify how valuation questions have been theoretically proposed and made explicit in evaluative research. Reports and articles on program evaluation with a focus on education are examined. It concludes, based on this bibliographical analysis, that the discussion about the attribution of value has seldom been conducted in the national literature in an explicit way, which reinforces the need for improving it.

Keywords : PROGRAM EVALUATION; EVALUATION CRITERIA; MERIT; WORTH.

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